Honestly, for low end stuff, mod_php is fine.  I&#x27;ve just spent the day beating some circa y2k perl code into submission on a modern shared hosting platform too.  That&#x27;s sort of fine too (helps that I&#x27;m an expert and know how to make debugging the PoS easy).<p>Wordpress is an OK product.  On the other hand I reckon php is a bad technology to stake your career on.  Perl less so, bear in mind it&#x27;s been around for several waves of the latest greatest thing and is still going strong.  Still I quite enjoy javascript sometimes, it&#x27;s like a syntactically crippled perl with good vendor support.  Perl6 looks cool, I hope I get the opportunity to mess with its async stuff.