Posted by J.O. Aho on 01/19/06 19:28

kaibo wrote:

> i've been playing around with php and mysql, and have been very happy with
> it so far. i just updated my companies site, only to find that their web
> host does not provide php. the tech at the hosting company told our salesman
> that only 10% of hosts provide php on their servers...that it's not common.
> that can't be true...can it? i just read that php is like the 4th most
> popular programming language, and every 3rd page i go to seems to use php.

Php has come to be one of the most common server side scripting language and
at least here around more web hosts seems to offer php support by default than
asp (at least of those I seen).


> does anyone know where i can find stats on how many sites use php, how many
> web hosts provide php, etc? i'd like to give them to my boss.

I don't have seen any proper such, but found at netcraft an old statistics
(2003) on what was the server side script language used on servers using
microsoft windows and I would think there is a new leader today, 2.5 year later.

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2003/08/30/php_growing_surprisingly_strongly_on_windows.html


//Aho

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