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PHP works .On everything. Ruby on Rails is clunky and complicated, and Python is not supported a lot of web hosting plans.If you have millions of dollars in VC funding and your own dedicated servers, Than feel free to use the latest and greatest web languages. Meanwhile, let the rest of us mere mortals use PHP without making us feel inadequate or unintelligent.

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If you can spare a measly $20/month, you can get a really decent VPS more than capable of running a lowish-traffic Django or Rails site. If you shop around, you can get one for about $15/month.

If you don't want to admin Linux, for five lousy bucks a month asmallorange.com will set you up for Django (if it isn't already setup on the shared host) if you just ask nicely. They advertise Rails 2.3 support by default.

If you want to learn a new technology, a micro EC2 instance is free for a year. You have an entire year to learn basic admin, mess around with Ruby or Python or Scala or literally -any- language that exists. Maybe you'll even make something cool and monetize it, or get noticed and land a job at an awesome company. The ubiquity of certain technologies is a non-issue when it is -trivial - to host yourself.

"a micro EC2 instance is free for a year"

unless you had the nerve to already be an Amazon customer earlier.

Set up another account. Amazon specifically told us to do this at an AWS meetup, they really dont mind.

If you don't want to admin a Linux box (which really doesn't take much), you can use Python or even Java on App Engine for free, if just to test them out.

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