When I first started using VPS's I went with the familiar Ubuntu distro on it, realized how "HEAVY"/ resource consuming Ubuntu was and decided to try out Cent OS, CentOS very stable and reliabe I fell in love with Centos hostinabox, the great thing about CentOS is theirs all sorts of support online related to/with centos and is pretty moderate with its consumption of resources, O BTW kloxo/lxadmin is a favorite of mine