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Unsexy yes, but stable and works a charm for most of the scale people here will deal with. What alternative would you suggest for newer projects?
by matdehaast 9y ago
Unsexy yes, but stable and works a charm for most of the scale people here will deal with.
What alternative would you suggest for newer projects?
- bpicolo 9y agoIf you’re looking towards hosting on shared style infra, php is still the choice. Also if you just have experienced PHP devs Python is a pretty great alternative - it gives you more breadth to go wide than PHP does (batch processing, hadoop, machine learning, whatever really) but really there are like 10-20 different languages in the ecosystem that are all viable candidates.
- donatj 9y agoPersonally working with PHP at a pretty large scale (hundreds of thousands of requests per second), I think it’s scaling is far simpler, easier, and cheaper than a lot of other options I have used, in particular node. The simple threading model applies to many cores and across a large fleet of servers with basically zero effort.
- melicerte 9y agoAgreed 100%, someone should give names and strength compared to PHP instead of just saying alternatives are better.