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But why would anyone make a big deal out of a slightly simpler (not necessarily better) deployment story? In any bigger project than a personal blog or stuff like that, deployment is merely tiny fraction of the process. If 5x the time is required to make things stable, then that is quite bad, no matter what the deployment story is.

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When it comes to agency work, with a lot of small to medium sites or API:s (in the $10k-$200k range) PHP is very convenient and there are a lot of choices when it comes to hosting and deployment. Dedicated WordPress hosts, Laravel Forge and Vapor, small hosting and VPS providers as well as AWS Lambda, AWS ElasticBeanstalk and AWS ECS to mention a few.

We are talking about accessibility and ease of use as factors that power adoption.

If you want to talk about something else, we can do that too.

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