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Every PHP developer eventually faces the same deployment reality: shared hosting. cPanel, Plesk, or a basic LAMP stack with FTP access and nothing else. No SSH. No Composer. No Node.js. No chance of running artisan or bin/console.

Modern PHP frameworks assume a modern environment. Laravel needs Composer, vendor/, and often Redis or a queue worker. Symfony is similar. Even Slim requires Composer and an autoloader. On shared hosting, you're lucky to get PHP 7.4 with mod_rewrite.

So you reach for WordPress. Or you hand-roll everything with require_once spaghetti. Neither is satisfying.