Hello Sling
We have both managed and unmanaged production servers at The Planet, SuperbServers and LiquidWeb. Our servers at The Planet and Superb are unmanaged by the DC (well, we have gold plan on TP). LiquidWeb servers are fully-managed. We manage our SuperbServers ourselves and have Steve at Rack911 on our Planet server for security. We prefer to have a production server unmanaged by the DC and manage it ourselves or have Steve on it.