You know PHP, so use PHP. There's going to be a mountain of business challenges between 0 and 100K daily visitors - free up your mental bandwidth for that. Als

You know PHP, so use PHP. There's going to be a mountain of business challenges between 0 and 100K daily visitors - free up your mental bandwidth for that. Also, something as read-heavy as a blog is well suited for something like Varnish (https://www.varnish-cache.org/ https://www.varnish-cache.org/). Regardless of the backend technology you choose, a caching http proxy (or whatever) should be absorbing most of the traffic.