Is the point of this article is that hosting non-php sites is too expensive or difficult? That really isn't true. If you just need to get a LAMP stack there's

Is the point of this article is that hosting non-php sites is too expensive or difficult? That really isn't true. If you just need to get a LAMP stack there's thousands of inexpensive options. If you want to something free and scalable like heroku, openshift would work.