Maybe. Our Clouds are full distros with root access. Many people coming from shared hosting are used to a cPanel type control system and limited shell access. We’re geared for people who want to start from scratch and tune a system for their purposes. However, everyone has to start somewhere. A 256 Zen is a great place to cut your teeth on building production boxes from scratch. Tweak, explore, learn. If you screw up, login to Cloud Control Panel and restart the box. If you really screw up, login and reinstall ;). You’ll be a Linux guru in no time.