Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - good enough to jump on it?

I'm currently planning to get a VPS from VPS.net for a PHP project. I personally haven't used CentOS (which is recommended all the time) and this is not a good time for me to start learning it, so I want to stick with Ubuntu, as that's the one I have experience with. Now there's the good ol' 8.04 LTS that's well supported, however, 10.04 LTS was released two days ago. I installed it on my laptop and it is pretty slick (doesn't matter for a server) and quick. But I am skeptical about it:

• Has anyone tried it in a production environment so far?
• How does it perform versus 8.04?
• Any serious bugs so far?

Solution 1:

When does your project have to be production ready?

Tomorrow? I'd go with 8.04 LTS.

In a month? Maybe you should develop it on 8.04 and try it out on a local 10.04 virtual machine to evaluate it.

In 6 months? My guess is Canonical will have fixed most problems by then.

Make sure you have a simple repeatable installation routine so that you can deploy on any server you like.