Same here. I recently took advantage of a major clean-up re-install to switch a couple of my VPS servers from Debian to running Ubuntu server. I haven't notice

Same here. I recently took advantage of a major clean-up re-install to switch a couple of my VPS servers from Debian to running Ubuntu server. I haven't noticed any difference at all as regards speed or stability and, with Ubuntu, it's just so much easier getting up-to-date versions of software. I think Debian sometimes errs a bit too much on the side of caution, as regards not going anywhere near the "cutting edge".