> Most of the cheap mass hosts support basically everything else in addition to PHP But PHP requires very little configuration on cheap hosting. At most, tweak

> Most of the cheap mass hosts support basically everything else in addition to PHP But PHP requires very little configuration on cheap hosting. At most, tweaking an HTACCESS file. The only competition in this space is Python (Django,Flask and co work with mod_wsgi). Cheap PHP hosting providers are basically PaaS (Apache,PHP,Mysql...) which is a good thing and a bad thing ( no flexibility, stuck with a PHP version). Good luck running Rails or Spring on cheap shared servers. On a $2 PHP/Python shared host I can virtually host as many apps as I want. Because of memory requirements upfront, I can't do that with Rails, or Spring. Because most mass shared hosting providers do no allow long running processes even NodeJS is out of question.