I've spent hours looking over various options (providers) to set up a remote server for mates instead of hosting it locally. For the same price as a hosted game server from say gtxgaming I can get a vps with 20 gig of space, can install my own distro, can access via ssh from anywhere, hell I can even setup my own port configuration and firewall.
What do hosted game servers actually offer that makes it worthwhile? Does the web interface really make it that much easier? *confused*