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This is kind of the point I am trying to make. Laravel Forge is selling me that time I would spend on configuration for a fraction of the price of other service

This is kind of the point I am trying to make. Laravel Forge is selling me that time I would spend on configuration for a fraction of the price of other services. But yes, I agree with you, kind of. But my websites are never probably going to have a lot of visitors. I want to build up a network of sites that all give me a small amount of income. Perhaps in the future it will give me more income and then I could spend it more wisely.

Zyst 11y ago
The point I understood from your article makes is that the few dollars you are saving over having another language stack (Java/Python/etc) makes using PHP over them worth it. Which, as people here mentioned, shouldn't really be your main consideration. If you wanna keep programming in PHP that's perfectly fine, but all in all the minor price difference between stack hosting prices is a poor excuse to justify it.
- staticelf 11y ago
  Yes, that is correct. Yes of course, I agree that it shouldn't be my main consideration. I will think about it, since I really want to switch programming language.
- brightball 11y ago
  It also depends on the situation. He's said that he's looking for several small sites to provide extra income meaning that he's looking at it from a cash-flow perspective. From a cash flow perspective, hosting cost definitely is a factor. This is the specific type of situation that PHP is almost ideal for because it scales down better than most other languages since everything is loaded and processed on-request instead of booting up to preload. You can host 1,000 PHP sites on a single small server as long as the concurrent traffic doesn't outstrip the specs. With most other languages that have to boot and preload, you're restricted before traffic becomes a consideration. PHP's not the right choice for every situation but for his use case it's pretty solid.

Zyst 11y ago

The point I understood from your article makes is that the few dollars you are saving over having another language stack (Java/Python/etc) makes using PHP over them worth it. Which, as people here mentioned, shouldn't really be your main consideration. If you wanna keep programming in PHP that's perfectly fine, but all in all the minor price difference between stack hosting prices is a poor excuse to justify it.

staticelf 11y ago
Yes, that is correct. Yes of course, I agree that it shouldn't be my main consideration. I will think about it, since I really want to switch programming language.
brightball 11y ago
It also depends on the situation. He's said that he's looking for several small sites to provide extra income meaning that he's looking at it from a cash-flow perspective. From a cash flow perspective, hosting cost definitely is a factor. This is the specific type of situation that PHP is almost ideal for because it scales down better than most other languages since everything is loaded and processed on-request instead of booting up to preload. You can host 1,000 PHP sites on a single small server as long as the concurrent traffic doesn't outstrip the specs. With most other languages that have to boot and preload, you're restricted before traffic becomes a consideration. PHP's not the right choice for every situation but for his use case it's pretty solid.