Benchmarks of PHP 7.2 Beta: PHP Is Still Getting Faster

Re:Benchmarks of PHP 7.2 Beta: PHP Is Still Getting Faster by debaserab2 on Sunday July 30, 2017 @03:25AM (#14884858)

PHP isn't serverless in the same way a lambda function is at all. You still need to host something that responds to HTTP requests and passes them along appropriately to PHP. Just because it has a share nothing model doesn't mean you don't need to provision servers. You still need to do 90% of the work.

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Re:Benchmarks of PHP 7.2 Beta: PHP Is Still Getting Faster by joshribakoff on Sunday July 30, 2017 @03:38AM (#14884896)

I think he meant you can easily find $5 "unlimited" php web hosts. So for all intents and purposes it's serverless as in you can use it on a shared web host, where you do not have to manage the server because the hosting company does it. Not that it's literally serverless. Even lambda uses servers obviously. They just abstract it away which is what he meant. Clearly all cloud offerings are backed by servers, it's just abstracted away to varying degrees

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Re:Benchmarks of PHP 7.2 Beta: PHP Is Still Getting Faster by cutler on Sunday July 30, 2017 @08:35AM (#14885671)

For $5 a month you can get a Linode VPS with 1GM RAM. After the one-off learning curve of Docker you can image these servers and get much more for your money than what any shared hosting provider has to offer. Better still, you're not tied to PHP either.

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Re:Benchmarks of PHP 7.2 Beta: PHP Is Still Getting Faster by Can_Not on Sunday July 30, 2017 @10:53AM (#14886193)

You're missing the point. The shared PHP host can be $5-$20 per year and handle bursts in excess of 1GB (assuming you're not grossly oversold, which is also common in VPSs).

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