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I've been running Debian on a VPS for about two years and the ease of maintenance and overall sensible default security policies make it a great server OS. I'll
by bk 19y ago
I've been running Debian on a VPS for about two years and the ease of maintenance and overall sensible default security policies make it a great server OS. I'll always go for an OS where my default system is well-tested, stable, and trivial to maintain. I can then spend some time manually installing the latest versions of the two apps (web server and db) whose latest features I may need.
It seems to me that Ubuntu is pretty much like Debian with a more shorter upgrade cycle. Is that impression accurate? Also, does Ubuntu have any extra overhead that a Debian system might not have?
- brlewis 19y agoAFAICT the only extra overhead with Ubuntu is that there are more desktop-oriented packages installed by default. Yes, the upgrade cycle is shorter than debian stable, but it's longer than debian testing. It doesn't sound to me like you'd have any reason to switch your server from debian to Ubuntu.