I agree. I'm more DevOps, (really, just a dev that is super comfortable in an ops position) and my go-to distro has always been Debian, but nearly every positio

I agree. I'm more DevOps, (really, just a dev that is super comfortable in an ops position) and my go-to distro has always been Debian, but nearly every position I've had has been supporting applications on Ubuntu. It wasn't until my last position when we were acquired and thrown into a CentOS ESXi datacenter that I really started to love CentOS's release cycle. You won't get all the somewhat recent or cool features without feeling like you're treading into the territory of hacks and warranty-voiding (try running Xen on Cent or RHEL), but you'll also not dread keeping your servers up to date, or keeping on top of the latest logoed vulnerability sweeping the net. I'd guess that 99% of the standard LAMP and at least 80% of the common Rails, SQL, K/V almost-crud apps could benefit from CentOS.