Is Lion Server Better than SL Server?

For those of you who have upgraded your Snow Leopard servers to Lion, is it worth it? I have upgraded my desktop Macs and my MBP to Lion, but I hesitate to upgrade the Mac mini servers I am running for my company because of upgrade glitch and performance concerns.
My impression of Lion at this point is that most of the enhancements are in the user controls and the desktop, which are not important issues for the servers. The Macs that I upgraded from SL to Lion actually appear to be more sluggish than before, particularly when it comes to network performance and streaming, so I have yet to see an actual performance advantage beyond the changes to the user interface.
I also have a lot of web applications using MySQL and I have read reports of the Lion upgrade breaking MySQL from the SL install. I am also running the Apache security module (ModSecurity), which was difficult to install in SL. I had to manually build the library files for it so I'm assuming the Lion upgrade will break the ModSecurity installation.
Are my fears unfounded or will an upgrade to Lion from SL be problematic on a production server that's run for a business?

I wouldn't upgrade it yet on a production machine since there are issues. Actually it's probably best to do it on a test Server and manually migrating the data over to Lion Server at this point.
It's true a lot of things break if you just do a plain upgrade over SLS since I upgraded my own test server to evaluate Lion Server before upgrading my clients SLS. I have yet seen any upgrades from any server version work well. Something normally doesn't transfer well and best to manually migrate stuff.
If you do a clean install of Lion and then Install Lion Server most things work pretty well so far such as mail and apache, and OD.
NOTE: However you need to have at least at DNS already running on another machine so when Lion Server does a reverse name lookup, It'll find the name of the server. If you at any point change the name of the Lion Server, you'll break links and other stuff don't seem to work well. This also solves the issue of nstat_lookup_entr failed.
So far I've Installed Pure-FTPd Manager 1.8 and Recompiled pure-ftpd 1.0.32 and works fine in 10.7 Server. I'll give more of a progress report over the next few days as I configure the server to my liking.
Even though Apple removed mysql in Lion Server. You can install mysql from mysql.com, Mac OS 10.6 64bit version. As for what I read online, it should work. I've installed it but haven't tested it yet, but should have it running in the next day and see how it runs.

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