Benchmarks of PHP 7.2 Beta: PHP Is Still Getting Faster

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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