> Lets not make it harder than it is. Sure. Either your hosting provider supports your language of choice out of the box, or it doesn't. If it does, deployment

> Lets not make it harder than it is. Sure. Either your hosting provider supports your language of choice out of the box, or it doesn't. If it does, deployment will be simple. If it doesn't you still need to configure a web server and install whatever package you need (for comparison, here is how you configure Apache for the Flask Python framewrok [1], I don't see how that's significantly harder than configuring Apache for PHP). > The limits of the language means nothing to 95% of it's users and even when they do as in the case of facebook it's a problem of success and has been solved. Well, "Bobby tables" and XSS don't mean anything to a lot of people. It doesn't mean that PHP has acquired a sane templating system out of the box, that it's stdlib has acquired consistency or that it suddenly got hold of a type system. PHP is widely supported by hosting providers, and it does make it easy for inexperienced people to use it. That's, IMHO, its real strong point. Apart from that, it doesn't do anything better than other mainstream dynamic languages, and it does a lot of things considerably worse. 1: http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.10/deploying/mod_wsgi/ http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.10/deploying/mod_wsgi/