That's really less about deploying than it is about setting up the environment. ...

coldtea · on March 7, 2013

>What's missing is the setup.

In PHP you only have to do the copy part. The setup is done for you.

>Most shared hosting centers just preinstall a LAMP stack and call it a day.

Which is our point exactly. If and when "most shared hosting centers" also do the same for Node, RoR etc, then we can talk again.

Until them, PHP is vastly easier to deploy for most people.

LandoCalrissian · on March 7, 2013

You might have to do an NPM install, oh lord! Seriously though, I don't understand how that is really any more work.

coldtea · on March 7, 2013

>Seriously though, I don't understand how that is really any more work.

Obtuse on purpose? For one, what npm install? On most shared hosting services there is no Node environment at all. Heck, in most of them you cannot even install one IF you want it. We're not talking VPS here.

If you read the article, our topic is where the vast masses get to deploy: in shared hosting services. No VPSs, no AWS, no Heroku, no nothing.