I used to work at Internet Brands, and their business model involved buying and migrating sites to a common platformand monetizing them. They were mostly inter

I used to work at Internet Brands, and their business model involved buying and migrating sites to a common platformand monetizing them. They were mostly interested in the traffic and the content, and much to the chagrin of developers like me, they didn't care what the code looked like. We got handed sites in ASP classic, ColdFusion, Perl, and even 10,000 flat html files and were told to rewrite them. Later, while working as a dev at ClearChannel, I was part of a team of 3 devs who converted RushLimbaugh.com from Communique (a self-contained Java CMS complete with its own database) to an MVC framework based on Zend. They paid Rush $400 million, and I'd estimate that the site rewrite was probably a $30,000-$50,000 line item in that budget. Don't bother fixing spaghetti PHP. Companies will pay for the traffic and content, and not care if it is mvc because it can be rewritten very easily.