I sometimes hear this, and I think its a case of comparing apples to oranges. Yes, if you have a brochureware site with a few bits of database interactivity, y

I sometimes hear this, and I think its a case of comparing apples to oranges. Yes, if you have a brochureware site with a few bits of database interactivity, you can just FTP a few files somewhere and have your PHP app up and running. The moment you start to introduce elements such as background queues, or more than a few developers on the team, you start to get into the realms of needing something more robust and doing config management. Facebook uses PHP. I very much doubt their deployment process is to FTP a few files to the right place.