Just wondering about the benefits using CentOS !?
1.) Centos is/was deadly stable and RHEL based.
2.) Most panels like cPanel and Directadmin were based on RHEL based Linux so lets say Centos
3.) Cloudlinux is RHEL/Centos based and used by many hosters
4.) Centos is also older I believe so maybe more trusted for that and yum is very nice to work with. I like it much better than apt.
Ubuntu has grown popular, mostly on desktop because it had good and stable support. But in fact, lots still use Debian, because Ubuntu is in fact a Debian derived distro.
Having that said... Centos will not live very long anymore. Centos 7 will be EOL june 30th 2024. Centos 8 on December 31th this month. And then it's end of story.
Like realcryptonight said, it well be pushed to Centos Stream, which is like Fedora more a development branche so less stable, which makes it less suitable for hosting.
However, Ubuntu works nice too, but if possible, personally, I would rather choose the main system, which is Debian.
Maybe there is not much difference, but I don't know.... I just trust that one more, maybe that is just a feeling.
As for Centos, there are very good replacements like Rocky Linux and Alma Linux. For the Centos lovers, probably Alma Linux will get on top of things, because that's also now supported by CloudLinux. And it's not sure if Rocky will be too.
all CentOS are now EOF. (End of Life)
Incorrect. Centos 7 is still until june 2024, so for a couple of years, that still can be used and it's still very stable. But one should not choose for Centos 7 if they want to use it longer then these 2,5 years. With fresh installations one can better use another system anyway nowadays.