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HN is a very loud bunch on some topics, but it's still a tiny number of people. Every wordpress instance out there is running on MySQL. Wordpress runs > 18% o
by mgkimsal 13y ago
HN is a very loud bunch on some topics, but it's still a tiny number of people. Every wordpress instance out there is running on MySQL. Wordpress runs > 18% of public websites.
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/07/27/wordpress-now-powers-18-9-of-the-web-has-over-46m-downloads-according-to-founder-matt-mullenweg/#!AB6IF http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/07/27/wordpress-now-power... and http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cm-wordpress/all/all http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cm-wordpress/all/all
Let's say their numbers are off by 2 - "only" 9% of public websites on wordpress. That's still a staggering number, and they're all running MySQL.