My experience of Ubuntu Server is that it's basically just Debian with a few management tools pre-installed (reporting, supervisord, etc). Personally I prefer

My experience of Ubuntu Server is that it's basically just Debian with a few management tools pre-installed (reporting, supervisord, etc). Personally I prefer Debian because the extras Ubuntu ships usually get disabled / deinstalled on production servers, so it makes more sense to work from a minimal base to begin with.