of course ...
as a DBA, I take most of my considerations on persistence layers: When data have correct quality, correct processes can be build. I worked more than 12 years with Oracle RDBMS, and of course I love Postgresql for its fully ACID compliance builtin and all others cool features (have you try "with" functions in >= 8.1 ? ;)) Mysql is so buggy, that it doesn't have any of my flavor, but I've to work with (know the bugs and make necessary to not fall into, thanks god ORM that handle that correctly)
Well but most of my time, I pick up my favorite editor and like to code. Python is the most often used one nowaday, but I often use others depending of my needs.
This site run completly using Django framework with a postgresql and a CouchDB backend on an nginx web server.
The Machine running this site is a Gandi Virtual machine, of course. Running a linux 64 bits kernel I have to migrate to a freebsd based, since it work now correctly on our Iaas platform (>= 8.2). This site run also in IPV6 if your system is aware of what a dns AAAA mean. You could reach this server in HTTPS, using a CACert certificate
Blog system, photo gallery are home made, and others modules that I keep for private use also
CSS design use bootstrap (was yui before), so of course this design work fine with A grade browsers. But visual design is not my speciality and I'll have to give a better try later (First construct backend and structure, after put color and design, or will try :)).
note: LAMP is really a bad choice (IMHO) for performance and security (and consistency in case of mysql) note2: I do not really need performance, but fun technologies for my experiments