I am a web developer using PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, and Javascript to create web apps which are hosted on Ubuntu server. I previously hosted on CentOS server but made the switch because Ubuntu offers sysadmins an easier experience. I install Virtualmin on top of a brand new installation of Ubuntu. This works equally well with VPSes and dedicated servers as well as cloud servers. I have used Ubuntu servers to create torrent seedboxes using qbittorent-nox, which has proved to be a very powerful and robust combination. If you have a lot of disk space and a 1Gbps connection, you can seed back a lot to your torrent community. I have also compiled and run xmr-stak on Ubuntu server to mine Monero, which it does without interrupting the normal operation of the box. I like running Ubuntu server LTS because it comes with up to date versions of PHP and MySQL. It`s one of the easiest Linux distributions to use on a server. I also switched to using nginx and find it much easier to manage than apache2. For SSL, Virtualmin installs Let`s Encrypt certificates. Sometimes, the script glitches and I fall back to using sslforfree.com to manually install a certificate. I`ve been using Linux since 1995 when it wasn`t taken very seriously. We`ve come a long way since those days. ©