[tikotus]

I hadn't done any PHP in almost 20 years, not since my studies when LAMP was still the way to go. But recently I had a reason to create a dynamic web page (not what I usually do) and went with PHP. Haven't regretted it.

I haven't run into any of the quirks. I keep things simple, and it just works. The only problem I ran into was the realization that PHP is the wrong tool for long running tasks. After some rogue requests/users running my whole service to ground, I had to move the long running endpoints to node.

[hparadiz]

Try https://reactphp.org/ for job running. Use apc or memcached for persistent storage. Don't run jobs through web. Queuing things (you can start with a basic rdbma for your queue storage) and have a job runner fire them from a job runner. Can all be done in PHP. Have scaled it to billions per 24 hours.