How Standard Ebooks serves millions of requests per month with a 2GB VPS; or, a paean to the classic web.

As one gets older, one feels less and less excitement for the new tech hotness—after all, when one must drive a nail, there’s only so many different kinds of hammers to get excited about before one stops caring and just reaches for the go-to. So when I want to start a new website, I reach for PHP.