What's the best OS for a server? https://mastodon.social/@geerlingguy/112311377807798463

It depends on what you're doing with it, but I'd say #Devuan and its parent #Debian should be near the top of your list. I'd also consider #FreeBSD and #DragonflyBSD.

I know that "Debian" is an ancient Sumerian word meaning "old", but when I used the former #CentOS bug-for-bug clone of #Red_Hat #RHEL, its packages were even older. I had to find 3rd party repos that had more-current versions of various libraries and applications. (Examples: I neded newer versions of PHP, php-intl, the internationalization library that php-intl depends upon in order to run almost anything because RHEL freezes the major versions of such software for years.)

Which makes sense when you're paying for stability ... you probably aren't installing current versions of $APPLICATION, so the language in which it is written probably needs to stay old, just with security patches.