Which Distro For Vps Did You Pick

Sep 6, 2007

This is a tough question cause the distro you choose makes all the difference.

So my question now is if your choices were:

Centos 4 or 5 (32bit or 64bit)
Ubuntu (32bit)
Debian (32bit)

which would you pick and why?

on a side note I believe that the distro that gets picked the most is the one that has the most servers and if someone were to pick one thats not favored by many then he/she may get a faster server cause there wont be so many VPSs on it. Correct in this assumption?

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