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Interesting take. In all seriousness, is there a way to integrate other languages with this pipeline or with this level of simplicity i wonder?

Eg, i prefer my language of choice. However i am personally focused on self hosting, so being "just as easy as PHP" seems useful.

I tend to ship self contained binaries that can run on your computer without configuration. While that would work on a web host it's not going to restart automatically or have any integration with old school PHP focused providers. Has anyone heard of a PHP bridge for this sort of thing? Perhaps I make a version of this app that works under CGI (or w/e)? But then you still have to know "Do i want the binary? Or the CGI? What the hell is CGI anyway?" etc.




I don't see why a Docker container with an app using your language of choice would be hard to run off a $5 hosting. You don't even need Docker; Podman or even systemd can run your container (or several). You still normally need to configure a Web server in front of it to handle HTTPS, but same applies to PHP.


The target market includes people who do not configure web servers. They purchase monthly access to one pre-configured. Eg https://www.hostgator.com/




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