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		tubby on June 8, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Bet the farm. Python or PHP? PHP. Why? Because if you ever move your app to a hosted server, you'll have tons of hosting options with PHP. Only a few with Python.

t0pj on June 8, 2008 [–]

Hopefully, PHP would still be the right choice for me if I then have to move beyond the single hosted server.

That is interesting though; that there does seem to be a ton of hosting options with PHP versus Python.

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