[consulting] Need flexible Drupal hosting, but can't afford an administrator

[John Papas]

I can't afford an administrator to manage my server, so I'm looking
for some sort of managed solution, but I'd like to have some
flexibility. I'm building custom modules for my clients, but the
managed solutions I find out there don't accept custom modules.

As far as I can see I can either:

 - Have an unmanaged VM, where I have full flexibility regarding its
configuration, or
 - Get a managed Drupal stack, where I won;t have control over what I
want installed and how I want it configured.

Is there something in between?