Bigger sites would use c/c++ and actual shell scripts weren't unheard of either, but that was presuming you actually had an full unix account, which with the ar

Bigger sites would use c/c++ and actual shell scripts weren't unheard of either, but that was presuming you actually had an full unix account, which with the arrival of mod_PHP usually werent the case. Todays deployment pipeline however have gone completely off track with all of the "large team, big cluster" overhead enforced on even small agile part time projects that don't need even 1 full server.