Ubuntu Server - for scale out workloads | Ubuntu
https://ubuntu.com/serverScale out with Ubuntu Server. Ubuntu Server brings economic and technical scalability to your datacentre, public or private. Whether you want to deploy an OpenStack cloud, a Kubernetes cluster or a 50,000-node render farm, Ubuntu Server delivers the best value scale-out performance available.
Package Management | Ubuntu
https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/package-managementPackage Management. Ubuntu features a comprehensive package management system for installing, upgrading, configuring, and removing software. In addition to providing access to an organized base of over 60,000 software packages for your Ubuntu computer, the package management facilities also feature dependency resolution capabilities and software update …
Security - Users | Ubuntu
https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/security-usersIf your server will be home to multiple users, you should pay close attention to the user home directory permissions to ensure confidentiality. By default, user home directories in Ubuntu are created with world read/execute permissions. This means that all users can browse and access the contents of other users home directories.
ServerGUI - Community Help Wiki - Ubuntu
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ServerGUIIf you're using an Ubuntu LTS release prior to 12.04 LTS, X11 and desktop packages are not supported for the full 5 year lifecycle of the LTS server release. So for the most secure server it is best to not install a GUI. But there are many good alternatives for effective server management. Byobu, Tmux, and Screen: terminal-based windowing
Managing an Ubuntu Server - Ask Ubuntu
https://askubuntu.com/questions/41106My question is: Does anyone know of any nice server management software which can be installed to make maintaining the server any easier. I've already got things like PHPMyAdmin installed which makes managing the MySql server a breeze, but I still have to login to do a lot of the donkey work to keep the server up-to-date etc.