LC server experience return anyone ?

[jbv at souslelogo.com]

Thanks to everyone who contributed with wise & useful advices both on and
offline.
I still have a couple of questions & comments though.

A few years ago, when I had the metacard engine installed on a dedicated
server,
the way it worked was that a new instance of the engine would launch for
every
incoming request, and would quit once the task was completed. This was ok for
the kind of site I was working on : low-trafic site with complex tasks for
each
request.
Is is the same with LC server ? And is there a risk for the server to
choke if too
many instances launch simultaneously, or is there a way to tell Apache to
queue
the requests somehow ?
And another thing I've been wondering : does the service on-rev offers
differ from
the above ? Is it simply a hosting service with an LC engine, or some more
sophisticated thing, like a long-running version of the engine that could
handle
many requests simultaneously and faster ?

As for installing my own server on a VPS, it is tempting, providing I can
find the
time to learn how to, being almost a complete newbie regarding server
administration.
Furthermore, I think it makes sense when you build your own project from
scratch,
but we're talking about transfering an already existing architecture of
various sites
and apps, with various add-ons & subdomains & cron jobs...
Last but not least, I will feel more confortable knowing my clients' most
sensitive
data & DBs are on a dedicated server located somewhere in europe than
wandering
somewhere in the cloud...

jbv