Considering migration from verio to Linode

Hello All. We have been with verio for a long time now (no laughing) and host about 50 domains spread across about 5 VPS boxes (linux and FreeBSD). A couple dedicate VPS boxes as well for a couple larger ecommerce sites. We are very versed in Linux so the Linode looks like a nice solution. Other than the many concerns with Verio our biggest concern is their lack of assistance getting sites PCI compliant. It appears their VPS is tied to the host server in some way via apache in such a way that we can not upgrade Apache to make it compliant so this start us looking at alternatives. Honestly I have found verio support to be pretty good when we needed them and it was via phone so the whole email ticketing system Linode uses will be new territory for us as well as the fact that the servers are unmanaged.

Also, most of our support issues with Verio are not really their fault since it revolved about hacked email accounts so we would like to put in place a solution where it is web servers only and possibly move the email hosting to a different provider (gmail, outlook.com, etc). But we are still considering the possibility of getting a linode and putting up Zimbra or something like that.

Anyway, has anyone else successfully managed such a migration? Most of the web sites are small but there are a couple a little larger. So I was thinking of a couple or more linodes and setting it up for multiple domain hosting.

Linode looks like such a nice environment but the unmanaged thing is what our concern is. I know we can pay for it but honestly we have been doing our own management on the verio boxes for the most part with the exception of OS upates, etc.

Thanks for any feedback before we jump on in. Any pitfalls such as our desire to possible host some email.?

Take care

Dave