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I will disagree there. I have an application generating revenue running on apache / php for the past 2 years unattended. Basically I have no spare time anymore

• SavageBeast 7y ago
  You might want to ssh in there and do a "df -k /" just to see that your system isn't near running out of disk. Systems that log will do this sooner or later and no house keeping in 2 years makes you a prime candidate. Nice work building a revenue generator that can run untouched!
• deweller 7y ago
  "Robust" has different meanings. I think the OP is equating robust with strongly typed and compiled. I have found well written PHP code requires very little unplanned maintenance. When I package the application in a docker container along with its dependencies and a webserver (nginx), I find that I can run a PHP application for years without having to worry about it. In this sense, PHP code can be very robust in the sense that there are little surprises once the application goes into production. The PHP ecosystem is very mature.
  • jitendrac 7y ago
    That is true, I created a college website in 2009, it used legacy MySQL drivers and ie6 compatible code. Every year I go back to visit the url, it works flawlessly with latest content. They even didn't bothered to change admin creds till 2017. Site is still up and running