I just took a look at Gunicorn and, while I'm probably a bit biased as a PHP developer who also maintains the infrastructure, I think setting up PHP is almost e

I just took a look at Gunicorn and, while I'm probably a bit biased as a PHP developer who also maintains the infrastructure, I think setting up PHP is almost exactly the same as setting up Gunicorn. The Nginx config will look a little different, but it requires roughly the same number of lines in the config file. In both cases a first-time user will probably be doing a Google search for a tutorial and following that tutorial, and in both cases it's pretty much as simple as copy/pasting in the installation commands and then copy/pasting the Nginx config and modifying it to suit your use case. PHP has the advantage of allowing you to use shared hosting if you really want to, which is great if you're just getting started. Definitely not what I'd want to use for anything resource-intensive, but at least there's a way to build a basic site without setting up the server yourself.