I have used PHP in a multi year project, and I think that PHP is just plain godawful. I am happy to use [LB]A[MP]P where [LB] is Linux or BSD (BSD preferred),

I have used PHP in a multi year project, and I think that PHP is just plain godawful. I am happy to use [LB]A[MP]P where [LB] is Linux or BSD (BSD preferred), [MP] is MySQL or PostgreSQL (mostly PostgreSQL preferred) and the final 'P' can either (1) fall back to Perl or (2) spring forward to Python. I have used Rails and Rails is fun but I am not convinced that they have emerged from scaling purgatory yet.