I still believe the LAMP stack is the future for most non-realtime applications. With PHP you just FTP copy a file to the server and it works instantly, no bui

I still believe the LAMP stack is the future for most non-realtime applications. With PHP you just FTP copy a file to the server and it works instantly, no builds, no compilation, no restarts. Compared to Node.js the server feels a lot more robust by default and an uncaught exception doesn't bring down the whole server until restarted. The biggest plus: you can host a lot of applications on the same stack and by default ALL parts of the stack (Apache, MySQL, PHP) can handle concurrency and load distribution well (with Node.js, for example, by default each application will be mostly single-threaded, you have to manually spawn multiple Node.js instances/workers for it to properly use all the server resources).