The scaling, in particular, is a huge benefit of PHP over practically every other technology out there: to double the performance of a PHP server, you can simply have twice as many cores and things will work without any changes needed. Not only is the scaling you get pretty much 100%, unlike other languages, this scaling continues beyond a single server!
There is so much wrong with this that it’s difficult to know where to start…
SRV records won’t help with browser traffic.
It’s bad form to just say “set this variable to this value” without any explanation about what that variable does and why that value helped.
Your configuration may not work or may be detrimental for others.
Others have written on the topic. Including Greg KH - one of the major Linux maintainers.
memory safety isn’t impossible in C
In practice it is.
C is also faster than JavaScript, uses less memory, I wouldn’t consider a scripting language to even be a choice for writing a backend server if I can use a compiled language instead.
Neat.
No. Go away. That’s not “starting a social media app” now is it?
Besides, even the Linux team has started the shift away from C.
Edit: besides - “Linux does it” doesn’t mean it’s beyond criticism. Linux has had numerous security vulnerabilities due to C.
C is a “memory unsafe” language. There are whole categories of security vulnerabilities that simply aren’t possible in memory-safe languages that C allows. There is no good reason to continue using C anymore for new projects if you care at all about security.
https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/product-security-bad-practices
Bonkers that anyone would start a social media app in C in 2025. “No JavaScript” but you’re just one buffer overflow from arbitrary code execution.
Free tier is a baiting strategy. Period.
Oh does it? I didn’t realize that. I’ve just switched over to rsync completely.
scp is deprecated.
Okay - How then?
I’m a web developer too - so I feel rather qualified to speak on the subject. I don’t think the Nextcloud developers are some sort of genius team of engineers but I’m not saying they’re stupid or anything - just that PHP does not scale better than “practically every other technology out there”.
It forks or creates a thread per request. It’s horizontal scaling which is pretty common with any webapp. I don’t know why they claim PHP is special here. It’s a very common way to handle requests and you can do that with lots of languages and frameworks. More CPUs = more threads = more scaling. Throw more servers into the mix and you’re now “infinitely scaling” right? Well… No. Because I/O.
Webapps tend to be I/O bound rather than CPU bound. So asynchronous I/O leads to much better performance generally with fewer resources. Because no matter how many threads and servers you put in the app tier you’re going to be limited by the disks on your database at some point.