[nickthemagicman]

PHP after 5 is great. I guess from PHP 7 on things changed pretty significantly.

Combine it with Laravel and nginx, and you've got an enjoyable stack in my opinion.

[iruoy]

Nginx is great, but I've used Apache and Caddy as well and they're both great too.

Does anyone start a new php project without a framework these days? There are some great ones (Laravel, Symfony, PimCore, etc.).