Ubuntu as a server
I’m not going to lie, I’ve never been that fond of (k)ubuntu. I find it tries to hide a lot of stuff so users cant break much, but I’ve been pleasantly surprised at how it can become a light streamlined server OS suitable for something like a VPS with limited amounts of ram and disk space.
The install given to me by my provider was just 400MB in size. Granted there was a lot of stuff had to be installed right away like the different shells, vim and even man but it cut a lot of the unnecessary software out thats just not needed on a server.