If you're going to be using PHP then I would strongly recommend finding a host that will let you install Fedora 7/8. I had to set up a PHP environment on 64-b

If you're going to be using PHP then I would strongly recommend finding a host that will let you install Fedora 7/8. I had to set up a PHP environment on 64-bit Ubuntu recently and it wa s a major pain. The PHP binary from apt-get was 5.1.2 and pdo_mysql wouldn't install out of the box (I had to comment out part of the install script). The lighttpd binary was also pretty old (1.4.11 I think) and had a bug specific to Ubuntu/Debian that caused major performance problems with fastcgi; I had to build the latest version from source. It's still workable but it just seems like Fedora is a lot more PHP-friendly.