[charlesdm]

The honest answer is: it does not matter. Great products have been built on very diverse tech stacks. Million dollar businesses have been built on a single VPS running PHP, without version control.

It's about finding a problem to properly solve, not about the tech stack.

[fedebehrens]

I don't doubt this, but the more time that can be spent on building the 'business logic' the better, and one way of achieving this is to rely on sensible defaults/frameworks for things shared across all SaaS tools like hosting/deployment.

[tata71]

For anyone doubting, I've seen examples of the PHP sites — posted here!