Hey! I see lot of people here hating on PHP, but I totally get what is you goal here and I love it!
I don’t really like PHP myself, but I absolutely love that I can litteraly spin up a LAMP stack OSS in like 15 minutes on a shared hosting if it’s mostly “copy files, edit config.php, init db, done”.
Some modern setup which are required to run on VPS that are supposedly easier since they run in docker are just so cumbersome to install… Like you need 6 api keys for 3 different cloud services and 12 containers configured in a docker-compose.yml just to try a local instance…