Hacker News Reader

Ye old "LAMP" stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) is pretty boring, and widely used. Very stable, very performant (and lots of options for caching / indexing / tweaking code when you encounter bottlenecks). Lots of competition in the hosting space as well, and you're not locked into any one company's flavor of "cloud computing platform".

View on HN

I second LAMP (although you can consider changing Apache for Nginx).

For PHP it depends on what you want to do, but Laravel (or Lumen) may help you A LOT!

It is super boring by these standard:

- You can find setup tutorials everywhere

- Almost every question you might think of has been already answered

- It will do what it says it will do

(Also don't forget to install phpMyAdmin, because who wants to write SQL in a terminal)

But then you have to use PHP.

You upload PHP file to your server, done. No deploy task and stuff.

That's fine for experimenting but sounds terrible when you want to track down where problems came from and rolling back.

There are plenty of testing, deployment and analysis tools for PHP apps.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com