When you're dealing with a small amount of code, ease of hosting matters a lot more than programming language elegance. PHP hosting is available everywhere - th

When you're dealing with a small amount of code, ease of hosting matters a lot more than programming language elegance. PHP hosting is available everywhere - that's what makes it a great fit for many small business projects. The relative merits of PHP are not in dispute. PHP is less elegant than just about every programming language out there. It's not necessary to write a marketing brochure to expound on Node.js's sublime beauty in comparison to PHP because everybody knows that's the case.