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Compared to moat languages, if you have no visitors, php takes up 0 system resources from your system to just sit there and wait.

So you could have hundreds of small sites on the same machine for an extremely low resource cost. That is something it brings to the table and its very beneficial for hosting solutions where there are a lot of small webaites sharing on the same resource.



Along this line, I like how memory leaks just can't be a thing because the page only exists so long as it's being rendered.




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