I am very upset that Ubuntu is supposed vanguard of Linux. My experience with Ubuntu has largely been negative. You have random crashes of daemons and apps that I do not see on my gentoo system...the same exact processes!

I don't recommend gentoo for everyone although it really isn't that bad--if you can develop a web app, I'm sure you're definitely capable enough to use a supposedly "advanced" distro like arch or gentoo, but Ubuntu isn't that sterling of a system in my experience especially when you need something beyond the defaults.