> but always wonder why shared hosting is often PHP/MySQL only. It's easy. Compare with trying to track Rails upstream, particularly in the 2.x/3.x days when

> but always wonder why shared hosting is often PHP/MySQL only. It's easy. Compare with trying to track Rails upstream, particularly in the 2.x/3.x days when minor version increments could sometimes see you building a whole new set of ruby binaries compare to what shipped with your base Linux distro. How often do you hear PHPers handwringing about virtual environments, locking dependencies, and whatnot? Like DOS and Windows, the PHP world has done a pretty good job of making it easy to install PHP, run PHP programs, and not spend hours of your life dinking with mutually-incompatible bits of the stack. Why would a shared hosting service want the pain of other solutions?