I'm using Arch Linux on a VM since 2015. On that VM I host some services for personal projects, gitolite, Grafana, InfluxDB, wireguard and some self baked daemo

I'm using Arch Linux on a VM since 2015. On that VM I host some services for personal projects, gitolite, Grafana, InfluxDB, wireguard and some self baked daemons (they are also deployed as Arch Linux package, it's not too hard and much cleaner and easier to deal with in the long run). I update weekly to daily, but sometimes also a month goes by (e.g., if I'm on vacation or the like), never had an issue, never had any breakage. I reboot on kernel updates, downtime is a few seconds which I can deal with. The VM is only single core, 4GB memory, 40 GB disk space - chugging along just fine. Personally, I'd always feel safe and good with choosing either Arch Linux, Debian or Alpine Linux as VM/CT distribution (my underlying hypervisor would be Proxmox VE, which derives from Debian).