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in 2003 you hoofed your servers to a colocation center and plugged them into the internet yourself. Deploying was something you did over `scp`. Buy a big server and you're good to go. That can still be the case these days (see stackoverflow which at least until recently was not using cloud deployment). But for the most part people use cloud platforms that charge by fractions of a second of cpu time. It's never been more cost effective to use a compiled language than it is today. And that would also apply to bare metal bring-your-own-server deployments. Want to host a monster site on just a pair of beefy servers? The less resource intensive your backend, the more requests you can serve per second.