FWIW, we used to used vservers for both NT and UNIX hosting. Website on NT, boards on UNIX. The NT server went down so much that we had to leave. The UNIX server has only been down once in the 3 months that we've been using it.
As far as paths, they didn't need any changing on my end, and phpMyAdmin comes preinstalled in the web admin tools. The setup was so easy I thought something was wrong! []/w3timages/icons/smile.gif[/] I highly recommend them, but just stay off my server! []/w3timages/icons/wink.gif[/]