the last poll on this showed that the vast majority (90%+) of posters here are running Debian on their servers.
That would be a self-selecting poll and highly unscientific. I don't remember it. But, I'm confident it was skewed, even amongst the technorati found here at HN. CentOS is dramatically more popular for web hosting (ask any web host you know that offers both).
I think Debian is awesome, and you definitely won't go wrong choosing it for a server (or any system, really). I'm not at all arguing that Debian is a poor choice--it's a great choice. I just wanted to point out that 90% seems ridiculously high for Debian market share on web servers.
That would be a self-selecting poll and highly unscientific. I don't remember it. But, I'm confident it was skewed, even amongst the technorati found here at HN. CentOS is dramatically more popular for web hosting (ask any web host you know that offers both).
I think Debian is awesome, and you definitely won't go wrong choosing it for a server (or any system, really). I'm not at all arguing that Debian is a poor choice--it's a great choice. I just wanted to point out that 90% seems ridiculously high for Debian market share on web servers.