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I think PHP's strength is coming from the large amount of web hosting companies offering it. It seems to be the "default" they offer, along with MySQL. Also, t

by wenbert 16y ago

I think PHP's strength is coming from the large amount of web hosting companies offering it. It seems to be the "default" they offer, along with MySQL. Also, those hosting providers are so cheap that for some it is the only choice that they have (including myself). While I have been learning Python for over a month now, I still do not have a server to run my stuff on. I run it on my local machine but it feels different when you have it "out there". After a month of looking at and learning Python, I fell in love with it. Bottom line, if web hosting companies offer Python as one their "default" installations, then I would directly jump right in. Python is nice because it has great web frameworks available - and at the same time, I can use it as tools to parse my huge CSV files (and other tasks) while I'm offline. Python is a very "comfortable" language to learn - I never had that feeling when I tried to learn Ruby.

Yaggo 16y ago
There are plenty of Django-friendly hosts available with easy deployment options: http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/DjangoFriendlyWebHosts http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/DjangoFriendlyWebHosts If your needs are more exotic, you can buy a VPS for $20 per month.
- wenbert 16y ago
  I still can't afford $20/month. :-| That is almost the same amount I pay for my hosting for the whole year. FYI, I live in the Philippines. If get a Linode, I will not be able to afford to pay for my internet connection hehe I am however planning to get a VPS though. I'll find a way :P
  - Yaggo 16y ago
    I see, no doubt that's lot of money in Philippines. Even the typical smallest VPS (eg. from Linode) has so much power, that you can easily run multiple instances of various services on it (if we are speaking of hobby / small scale projects). Maybe you can share the costs with some friends? Or deploy your apps on Google App Engine! It's free (within the free quota), supports WSGI apps, so you can run Django-nonrel, Tornado, Flask, Pylon, Tipfy, or whatever your favorite Python web stack is.
    - wenbert 16y ago
      Me and my friends thought about sharing a VPS, but it did not work out. Google App Engine sounds good. I will give it a spin as soon as I can... Appreciate the response :)

by wenbert 16y ago

Yaggo 16y ago

There are plenty of Django-friendly hosts available with easy deployment options: http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/DjangoFriendlyWebHosts http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/DjangoFriendlyWebHosts If your needs are more exotic, you can buy a VPS for $20 per month.

wenbert 16y ago
I still can't afford $20/month. :-| That is almost the same amount I pay for my hosting for the whole year. FYI, I live in the Philippines. If get a Linode, I will not be able to afford to pay for my internet connection hehe I am however planning to get a VPS though. I'll find a way :P
- Yaggo 16y ago
  I see, no doubt that's lot of money in Philippines. Even the typical smallest VPS (eg. from Linode) has so much power, that you can easily run multiple instances of various services on it (if we are speaking of hobby / small scale projects). Maybe you can share the costs with some friends? Or deploy your apps on Google App Engine! It's free (within the free quota), supports WSGI apps, so you can run Django-nonrel, Tornado, Flask, Pylon, Tipfy, or whatever your favorite Python web stack is.
  - wenbert 16y ago
    Me and my friends thought about sharing a VPS, but it did not work out. Google App Engine sounds good. I will give it a spin as soon as I can... Appreciate the response :)