On 4/17/2012 2:57 PM, John Shaver wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Lonnie Olson<li...@kittypee.com> wrote: >> * PHP can scale very well, see wordpress.com > I wouldn't use wordpress as an example of that. Wordpress has a huge > security vulnerability discovered nearly every other day. In my > (probably meaningless) opinion this is largely due to their choice of > PHP. However I understand why they choose to continue using it. It's > pretty much on every webserver out there. It's like a virus really. > For posterity: I never said PHP didn't scale. Scalability in web these days is less about language and more about design of the web app, the IT environment, the network, etc. I said PHP didn't perform. And it doesn't, comparatively speaking. That may or may not matter in whatever we might do with it, but it is there.
In related news: I think I'm settling on some interesting results for my own projects (ymmv). For simple projects where I just want to display a page with some dynamic bits, a simple mod_php style structure with some quick scripts to serve up stuff is great. For complex sites with things like a userbase and lot's of changing/sensitive data, a web framework with tools to help manage a lot of that is likely more useful. What you choose for either scenario is still (as we always knew) probably more determined by your language choice, maintainability factors, and supportability needs. Again, your mileage may very. -Tod Hansmann /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
