You trade having to compile for actually having code that can scale
Not sure what you’re talking about, I scaled to millions of users on a pair of boxes with PHP, and its page generation time absolutely crushed Rails/Django times. Apache with mod PHP auto scales wonderfully.
It scales just fine the same way everything else scales: put a load balancer in front of multiple instances of your app.
It can scale by the virtue of spending a lot less time processing the request
You don't know anything about the PHP ecosystem and it shows.
Not sure what you’re talking about, I scaled to millions of users on a pair of boxes with PHP, and its page generation time absolutely crushed Rails/Django times. Apache with mod PHP auto scales wonderfully.
It scales just fine the same way everything else scales: put a load balancer in front of multiple instances of your app.
It can scale by the virtue of spending a lot less time processing the request
You don't know anything about the PHP ecosystem and it shows.