The choice of PHP had very little to do with it. Digg was 3 webservers with 8 database slaves in 2006. https://web.archive.org/web/20060412174457/http://www.or

The choice of PHP had very little to do with it. Digg was 3 webservers with 8 database slaves in 2006. https://web.archive.org/web/20060412174457/http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/04/digg_phps_scalability_and_perf.html https://web.archive.org/web/20060412174457/http://www.oreill... Digg even moved some processing from MySQL into PHP in 2009 to increase performance. http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/3/23/digg-4000-performance-increase-by-sorting-in-php-rather-than.html http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/3/23/digg-4000-performa...