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I still build mildly dynamic websites in PHP once in a while. But this is only useful when it is a very small website (max 5 pages?) because you have to work wi

I still build mildly dynamic websites in PHP once in a while. But this is only useful when it is a very small website (max 5 pages?) because you have to work with a directory structure to go without framework. The moment your site gets a little bigger you need some kind of routing. This means you start redirecting all requests to one PHP file. Then you start using forms and you need a database, a little framework for responses, and so on. So you very quickly need a framework. This can of course be a very small framework. The point is, small frameworks are so easy to setup you start skipping the 'mildly dynamic website' part because it doesn't scale at all.

sjamaan 4y ago
> The point is, small frameworks are so easy to setup you start skipping the 'mildly dynamic website' part because it doesn't scale at all. Tell that to a non-developer who has a $1 a month shared hosting account who would like to spruce up their website a little bit with (let's say) a visitor counter.
- Macha 4y ago
  So Vultr starts at $2.50 a month and Linode at $5 a month. $1 in 2000 dollars is $1.67 today, and most of those $1/month hosts were introductory offers anyway. I seem to remember the cheapest real hosting I got in the day was $30/year, and those hosts now charge £4/month and $7/month respectively, though to be fair they include a domain these days.