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> Server are cheaper and vastly more powerful now than in PHP's infancy Slightly off-topic, but I think that nowdays it's actually less of an argument than whe
by k_bx 7y ago
> Server are cheaper and vastly more powerful now than in PHP's infancy
Slightly off-topic, but I think that nowdays it's actually less of an argument than when PHP started becoming popular. The thing is, back in the days, statically typed languages were just bad and unproductive. Today, they are way better, and the fact that I can run my service on $3/month server with 900M of RAM and not think about the price tag at all is actually quite a decent argument to stay away from dynamic languages (but not the main one, tbh).
- mywittyname 7y agoWith more companies moving to virtualized hosts, I bet performance becomes a real consideration. With most services I've seen, you buy server capacity in doubling increments. So either your application fits into 2 vcores @ 2.2GB with 8GB or RAM, or you step up to 4 vcores and 16GB, with costs also doubling.
- k_bx 7y agoGood point! Let's not forget that, unlike the old days, it's kind of a standard to require redundancy and load-balancing from day 1, so not fitting machine's RAM hurts even more.