<i>&quot;Modphp? Yuck.&quot;</i><p>It&#x27;s very rare to find someone deploying with mod_php today. The security implications are too dire, and the performance&#x2F;memory usage is problematic. There are a number of ways to run PHP under a reasonably modern app server model, and with the security of suexec. FPM being the most modern, but there are lots of mod_fcgid deployments out there, as well.<p>I&#x27;m not a fan of coding in PHP, but it&#x27;s still a reasonable choice for developing applications that you want to be able to run everywhere. In fact, if your goal is to make something people will use very widely, PHP may still be the best choice for web apps. There are still lots of shared hosting accounts out there (I know, I can&#x27;t believe it either, in a world with so many low cost virtualized options), and many can only reasonably run PHP apps.