For most setups at most ISPs, PHP servers are zero setup, self contained systems which, without any setup from the client (the user, you), comes back after rebo

For most setups at most ISPs, PHP servers are zero setup, self contained systems which, without any setup from the client (the user, you), comes back after reboot with no issues. It has also been the case for 15+ years so it's quite something you can actually trust to happen. This is not so for Go or Node for most hosters out-of-the-box. Sure in the HN echo chamber, every hoster offers this maybe, but there are literally 100000s of small/big hosting companies/resellers in the world that run, say, CPanel. And the only thing that is trivial there is LAMP (with PHP/MySQL) hosting; the rest is just not very convenient or even impossible. So once you set it up, no there is no difference, but then you have to know how to set it up, secure it, have access to set it up and secure it and know how to maintain it which is the point i'm making (not meant about specific environments besides PHP/MySQL); if you are a small company that needs to make money, you might not(!) want to bother. Edit: Cpanel, in some near-future version will offer Node, I cannot find Go though. Edit2: I'm definitely not recommending anything here or saying Cpanel is any good; I just know it well and I know that it's the most installed 'admin panel' on hosting servers.