Still, it is a consideration, and it all factors in. Copying your WonderCMS files to another host, great… oops, it doesn’t have PHP mbstring extension, sorry, won’t run. (And if you’re trying to use “free” hosting, you probably don’t have privs to install the missing requirements.)
I disagree, it was touched on, and glossed over, in the article.
>> “… means being able to start your website by dumping everything into a folder and you're pretty much done (1 step installs).”
>> “Dumping everything into a folder and it just works (1 step installs) makes it easy for even beginners to get a website running, but also it makes your website, blog, forum, journal, or whatever, portable. Very easily portable. You need to put your website on a thumb drive and/or move it to a different domain? Done. Easy. It's just like backing up any folder.”
While that may be a problem for some, I don't think it's the problem for the purposes of this article and discussion.
Different situations have different requirements.