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Asked: 2026-05-20T05:05:36+00:00

I am planing to build a website using PHP to be hosted on the

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I am planing to build a website using PHP to be hosted on the public internet with decent user load (between 1000 to 5000). I am using FreeBSD as a server and I configured Apache, PHP and MySQL from scratch.

  1. With proper configuration, is it safe to use such a server, or should I go with some web framework? I am asking as I’ve heard few horrible things about PHP.

  2. If it is safe, does PHP get too complex when the size of the site increases beyond a certain point?

  3. I know Facebook uses PHP; are there any other big websites that use PHP?

  4. Last, is it recommended to use some PHP framework or should I stick to plain old PHP?

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  1. Editorial Team

    PHP works fine for just about any size server. The question isn’t really the programming language but the infrastructure you set up. 1000-5000 users is not very many unless they are all banging on the site at the same time. Are they doing a lot of DB queries or consuming a lot of CPU resources? If so, then you may want to look at a dedicated MySQL server for the DB queries.

    I have nothing against frameworks. However, you are usually shoehorning your problem into their solution. Careful design on your part with common routines, etc., are usually just as good as a framework in my opinion. However, some people are more comfortable working within a framework because it removes some of the plumbing issues.

    A lot of large sites use PHP. It may not be obvious because they hide the extension of the scripts in the URLs.

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