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Why do most web hosting services support only PHP as the server-side language?

Asked 2010-06-02T20:57:28.567
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I have been working with Java and Python, so I found a nice web host which has support for these.

But my question is, why is it so hard to find such hosts?

I understand that PHP is easy, and I also understand that Oracle host is hard to find ($$$ of course), but what do they have against some good open-source, completely free Java Spring, JSP, Django, Python, Ruby on Rails, Perl, etc.?

It is so rare to find hosts ... not to mention freelancer bids.

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Java and Ruby on Rails are expensive in resources (CPU and RAM).

Perl is supported pretty much everywhere...but not published. Probably not so requested
Python...I don't know. Probably not so requested. But there are several free Python hosting options, like http://code.google.com/appengine/, and many others (of course, PHP is still the king by far).

answered 2010-06-02T21:05:52.267

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