I live in Africa & $10 * 12 = $120/year is way too expensive --- when I say cheap, I'm talking about $3/month (shared, 20GB bandwidth, 1GB storage, MySQL / PgSql)
I use PHP for my freelance work mainly because I have no option on hosting. I never got the appeal for PHP (besides being cheap to host). All my personal projects are either done in Python or Node + (Angular, react & now Vue)
Python: PURE elegance
Node: io breeze
PHP: ?
Q: is the "module" system still achieved by dumping file content or is there a linking system?
Hostgator, Godaddy...