My server needs are mostly home server, so my experience is mostly from that. I run a webserver with Apache/PHP/MySQL. I run Dovecot and Postfix. MPD even as a

My server needs are mostly home server, so my experience is mostly from that. I run a webserver with Apache/PHP/MySQL. I run Dovecot and Postfix. MPD even as a music player daemon. It does use systemd, but as usual, I assume it is to trim down on development time. The defaults are often quite sane, and a lot of thought has been put into integration of services. It is quite polished I have to say, and there used to be some config-parts in Mageia Control Center for server stuff. I assume they still are. There are many contributors with their own expertise, like the person for OpenLDAP. It is also quite strongly built around Perl. If you like to automate stuff with Perl, you will be very happy.