(I wrote this last week, then saved it, and just realized I forgot to hit “Publish”.)
I’ve tried, I’ve really tried, but I just can’t really get comfortable running Ubuntu as a server. It’s just too much.
Strike one was the massive memory leak I had in my VPS when I tried Ubuntu there. When you’re running on 1gb of dedicated memory and 1gb “disk memory”, you can’t afford to be running at those limits after 8 hours of use. It just doesn’t work well.
Strike two came just last week, when I switched our gaming community’s dedicated server from Win2k3 to Ubuntu, and immediately fried the kernel trying to optimize it for a gameserver. (Then, to make matters even worse, the company we rented from has horrible service, and wouldn’t even be bothered to reboot it and get it back to a usable kernel). So that prompted a switch to a provider where I have complete root access.