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The difference is SSI is extremely fast and quite limited. You’re not supposed to write your entire website in it.

I'd be interested in seeing what the performance difference between the NGINX SSI and <?php echo $_ENV['SIGN_OUT_URL'] ?> is. Just because PHP _can_ be slow, doesn't mean it _must_ be slow.

Also SSIs predate PHP by some time

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