For non enterprise graded CRUD apps, I usually go the PHP way, it's not sexy but it's cheap to run both in term of server cost and brain space to worry about wh

For non enterprise graded CRUD apps, I usually go the PHP way, it's not sexy but it's cheap to run both in term of server cost and brain space to worry about what could go wrong, doesn't require constant maintenance and is likely to outlive the majority of what is considered sexy today.