as mentioned above, if you want a stable system,
fedora is a very bad idea.
bleeding edge actually means, you get all the latest version of any package you may care about - which is fine for certain people.
the exclamation mark is on bleeding edge, even, for lack of a better term, "cutting edge" would be a more stable platform.
fedora is about you're on your own, if you break it, you get to keep the pieces.
server-grade Linux-OS like debian( yuck, don't get me started :-O ) or RHEL/OEL/CentOS/SL/PU_IAS/etc are way more conservative.
they or a certain PNALV freeze (important) packages at a certain amount of time and spend the next weeks/months/years! on fixing known/upcoming bugs.
then those "frozen" packages/revisions eventually make it into a release-grade server-OS, where the important packages stay at their current revision, with only bugfixes and eventually some enhancements thrown in.
there are two things you might want to consider, do you want to upgrade your production system with every fedora/ubuntu/opensuse/whatever release, which may occur within every 6 months or do you want to use a stable platform that is supported either upstream or thru 3rd party for the next 5-7 years?
if you want or think you may need bleeding edge, go for fedora/ubuntu,
if you want long-term support and stability go for debian or centos
or even buy the real thing and go for RHEL or SLES.
but then you wouldn't be thinking about using fedora in the first place :-)
regards
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