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Shared hosting is kinda bottom barrel these days. Even one off static sites I'd isolate into $5/month digitalocean droplets over shared hosting precisely for th

Shared hosting is kinda bottom barrel these days. Even one off static sites I'd isolate into $5/month digitalocean droplets over shared hosting precisely for this reason. PHP is optimizing more for large sites that use multiple servers because frankly that use case is more important.

kijin 5y ago
The opcache bug is actually more likely to hit VPS and dedicated servers, because most sites on shared hosting don't have enough concurrency to trigger the race condition. The last time I helped a customer fix it, they had a cluster of EPYC servers. Their app needed scratch space for generated code, so even offline deployments wouldn't prevent garbage from accumulating in the local opcache, eventually causing a restart. Even up here in the clouds, there are many times more people who rely on one-click WordPress-preinstalled droplets than there are people who understand how to correctly juggle multiple droplets to deploy updates without downtime. Besides, a bug in the PHP runtime is a bug in the PHP runtime, regardless of whether the user is following today's best practices.