PHP&#x27;s speed is here is a bit of a red herring. I dislike linking to benchmarks, but <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techempower.com&#x2F;benchmarks&#x2F;#section=data-r12&amp;hw=peak&amp;test=db" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techempower.com&#x2F;benchmarks&#x2F;#section=data-r12&amp;hw=...</a>. In I&#x2F;O bound situations, PHP performs within an order of magnitude of C. You don&#x27;t have to be Facebook, you literally just need to enable APC or XCache.<p>Let&#x27;s focus on how horribly awful Drupal is. Or, to the point of the topic, let&#x27;s congratulate the author for discovering that yes, you can in fact replace a <i>single</i> server with any number of cheaper computing devices (you just have to disregard all of the other reasons why we use servers).