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by hahahaa 25 days ago
Well, shared hosts let you upload the PHP file via FTP (or secure FTP if lucky!) to ~/public_html and serve it without administering a server.
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loloquwowndueo 25 days ago
That’s still running on a server.

(Sorry, I guess “serverless” is not a buzzword I’ll ever understand)

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willmartian 25 days ago
Serverless is just a server that has been abstracted away enough by magical APIs to let you (partially) ignore the underlying physical machines.
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hahahaa 25 days ago
Yeah I was being tounge in cheek calling a PHP script serverless because technically it is (no need to install stuff and configure a server) but it predates the hype days. Like calling a word doc "nosql"
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