just a little tip: if you are hositing web in a VPS, please don't use ubuntu.
Get CentOS minimal.
Yeah, Ubuntu is a little chunky for hosting websites but it works. I can't stand CentOS.
personal preference shouldn't be a factor when picking a workstation OS. Performance wise CentOS minimal is the perfect distro for VPSs since it has almost nothing in it. and a recommendation on top of that is to replace the apache httpd with nginx or a NodeJS based web server.