I think I'll stick with rails if I want cute DSLs and lots of magic ("… broadcast an event to update the frontend in real time …"). But sure, it's great that ph

I think I'll stick with rails if I want cute DSLs and lots of magic ("… broadcast an event to update the frontend in real time …"). But sure, it's great that php has come a long way since php3. That aside: > It can handle more than 500,000 orders per month when hosted on a $6/month server. Surely it can do more than 700 orders per hour, 1 order every 5 seconds? > The only additional fees are for a CDN (if you want your assets to be served faster) and a domain name Uh, so no managed database, but you recommend paying for a CDN before slapping Varnish in front of your static assets? I get that php might be eminently usable at this point - but this seems like an odd pitch.