Using Lenny on production server?

I run a moderately busy community website, hosted on my own LAMP (Perl, MySQL) AMD64 server, currently running Etch in a colo. I am going to go up to the datacenter on July 16th to rebuild the server for various reasons. This will include a complete re-install. One change I am considering is to upgrade to Lenny. I've read that Lenny will shortly be frozen, for possible release in September 2008, so I'm thinking that it must be fairly "stable" (not in the formal sense, of course) at this point.

I know the conventional wisdom is to only install Stable on servers; however I am wondering if I can temper that view with the current state of Lenny (almost ready for move to stable) and just install it now rather than go through a dist-upgrade later.

So: What do people think about the wisdom of running a clean install of Lenny in a production server environment at this time? I am not a bank, I don't need five-nines uptime, but I would just like to know if the system is generally fairly stable and "probably" not prone to any major upheavals at this point. Any insights there?

Thanks!

Neil


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