Any advantage to having website hosted by a Mac OS X Server webhost?

With Leopard on it's way and the likes of iChat Server supporting relaying, is there any advantage to having our domain hosted with a Mac OS X Server webhost? For instance would we then be able to use iChat Server with our domain name?
I'm thinking about putting a little pressure on our webhost to provide Mac OS X services.

I'm no expert on web hosting (or anything else to do with web services but I would have thought that the only way to take advantage of all the Leopard stuff would be to lease a whole machine to yourself (or get them to host your own machine). I cannot see how a hosting company could use a single server for multiple customers, thereby reduce hosting cost per customer.
-david

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