I run Ubuntu, the web service packages are well represented and are reasonably up to date and the setup is nearly no-brainer (well, as no-brainer as webserver s

I run Ubuntu, the web service packages are well represented and are reasonably up to date and the setup is nearly no-brainer (well, as no-brainer as webserver setup can be.) The clincher for ubuntu over others, for me, has been the community support - it is such an active community googling ubuntu and your issue usually finds you effective answers in minutes; not always so easy on some of the other ones.