idflorin We deem debian-based distros as inferior, #1 because of apt, which is cumbersome and lacks many features.
We've also had some machines running Debian and Ubuntu for some projects and on development environment and we always found these to be less reliable.
About Ubuntu we have a particular opinion, we see it as an hype distro, without quality. The 2 year major version release cycle is ridiculous. in the last 10 years you've had how many major ubuntu versions? 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 20.04 ... wtf is that? And what's with that versioning scheme .04 just cause it releases in April? I mean, ffs. Canonical wanted to play linux, invested heavy on marketing, and what else? Not even in their flagship feature, the Unity Desktop, they succeeded.
About Debian, its a little better, but still uses APT, we're not Google to have 1000 developers working on debian-testing and making it a good distro. Also, many apps like IDM/freeipa, openshift, ansible, or even system like systemctl, journalctl, (and many more) etc they all come from EL, so we see no advantage of working with a Linux distribution that uses ported software from EL, usually with more bugs (naturally), and has a lesser capable package management system.
We are using this provider in europe isscloud.io their site isn't the best I heard they're launching a new soon, but we have some VPS with them they have a really great support and prices and they have AlmaLinux VPS (traditional VPS, not Cloud VPS), so far all working great. CloudLinux is a paid distro, so we're not so much into it.
