PHP also has a lot of very cheap hosting options, I have seen them advertised for as little as $3 per month. Trying to host rails for less than $10-15 is challe

PHP also has a lot of very cheap hosting options, I have seen them advertised for as little as $3 per month. Trying to host rails for less than $10-15 is challenging. There's also a ton of complete software solutions available, like phpBB, vBulletin , Wordpress etc. The PHP industry offers more scripts for a one off $x download which can then be deployed via FTP by a non-technical person who doesn't know git. The rails/django ways seems to be to sell everything as SaaS. The upshot of this is that a non technical person can get something started with a PHP based system, so by the time they call a serious developer in to help there is already inertia.