"Ben Sizer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Another perfectly good reason is that PHP pages are much simpler to > deploy than any given Python application server. Just add the code into > your HTML pages as required and you're done. Python could come close to > this if something like the Python Server Pages implementation in > mod_python was to become widely available and well known, but that > still requires overcoming the first problem.
I didn't realize you could do shared hosting with mod_python, because of the lack of security barriers between Python objects (i.e. someone else's application could reach into yours). You really need a separate interpreter per user. A typical shared hosting place might support 1000's of users with ONE apache/php instance (running in a whole bunch of threads or processes, to be sure). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
