Jason Lefkowitzjalefkowit@hachyderm.io
Oct 22, 2026, 2:46 PM@mhoye The deployment story really is an important one. It amazes me that in all this time nobody has seriously tried to challenge PHP on it
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mhoyemhoye@cosocial.caOct 22, 2026, 10:24 PM@jalefkowit sftp, or rsync, or literally just “cp”. It’s almost nothing.
FoolishOwlfoolishowl@social.coopOct 23, 2026, 4:42 AM@mhoye @jalefkowit Okay, now I'm starting to get it.
I've set up Dokuwiki and phpBB just by uploading tarballs and unpacking them into /var/www; everything else takes more infrastructure than that.
Raphael Fetzerpheraph@mastodon.socialOct 23, 2026, 6:34 AM@foolishowl @mhoye @jalefkowit Yesterday I had to migrate a phpBB site with 250,000 posts to a new host; it really just involved copying the files and the database, and it worked straight away.
Oct 22, 2026, 11:58 PM@jalefkowit @mhoye
I mean.
You can still do it with Python or Ruby. The only extra step is having to restart the server.
People don't *generally* do it because you *usually* have extra steps like migrating your database and building the assets.
rugkrugk@chaos.socialOct 23, 2026, 8:29 AM@art_codesmith @jalefkowit @mhoye Yeah also was about to say that, any interpreted language should offer the same advantage, should not it?
Space Catitude 🚀TerryHancock@realsocial.lifeOct 23, 2026, 2:49 AM@jalefkowit
PHP grew up with Apache, just like Javascript grew up with browsers. It's always going to be easier to use them than to replace them.
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