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How Standard Ebooks serves millions of requests per month with a 2GB VPS (alexcabal.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/programming@programming.dev
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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

Why not? Is it because a typical nodejs app include hundreds of npm dependencies? As long as it can launch and finish within 60s (default timeout for apache), you should be able to use it.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Who wants to wait 60s for a website to load?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Not saying you should use CGI (who does these days), but saying you could still use it if you want

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    The point is that PHP is much more performant and doesn't waste resources as NodeJS does. While you can run PHP on CGI with a decent bootstrap performance that won't get people annoyed the same can't be said of NodeJS. Nowadays people do PHP-FPM which is way faster at scaling up that any NodeJS process manager out there and doesn't sit wasting resources when a particular application doesn't have requests.

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