Or you use sane development practices, well supported libraries and frameworks, and the latest version of PHP and run very successfully, because it's more than

Or you use sane development practices, well supported libraries and frameworks, and the latest version of PHP and run very successfully, because it's more than fast enough, shared nothing is a viable paradigm and being able to quickly see the effect of code changes without compiling and redeploying into a container is something you miss when working in the Java world. Is it suitable for EVERY application? No. But then again, nothing is a one-size-fits-all solution for all problems.