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Anyone who has had to maintain a shared PHP server would say that's very different. I used PHP for years, and now use serverless functions (both Lambda and Deno
by ascorbic 4y ago
Anyone who has had to maintain a shared PHP server would say that's very different. I used PHP for years, and now use serverless functions (both Lambda and Deno). Serverless means you don't need to worry about anything except the code. It scales automatically. It never needs updating. It doesn't go down in the middle of the night. It can roll back deploys instantly. Sure, you could pay for managed hosting, and then pay more for scaling, and set up automation for deploys, but give me serverless functions any day of the week. They just work.
- tomcam 4y agoWhat’s the SQL story? SQLite, or is PostgreSQL fast enough on startup?
- ascorbic 4y agoYou don't run the database itself there, you connect to it remotely. I've not had a chance to try them yet, but PlanetScale Portals look like a great solution there. https://planetscale.com/blog/introducing-planetscale-portals-read-only-regions https://planetscale.com/blog/introducing-planetscale-portals...
- tomcam 4y agoOk I was too little literal-minded about the functions concept. Thank you