I agree.  However, you'll find that it's often much cheaper and you can even receive better service if you go with unmanaged servers and a server administration company separately.  Many server administration companies like <a href="http://serversitters.com/" rel="nofollow">Server Sitters</a> will handle the server management and you'll still save a ton of money.  Plus they specialize in server administration and management and often times the techs at managed server providers are lacking.