Ohloh: PHP Eats Rails for Breakfast
I read about Ohloh on VC investor Brad Feld's blog. Ohloh (which is hosted at Internap) is a research firm that focuses on open source projects. It collects metrics on source code, developers, infrastructure, etc.
Having indexed 3,000+ projects and 220 million lines of source code, Ohloh recently published an article comparing PHP, Ruby, Python and Perl. Take a look; interesting stuff.
The article even includes a PDF at the end with underlying data behind these charts.
Brad Feld's perspective is different from Ohloh's, by the way. He says "while PHP appears to be dominant today, the rapid growth in new projects in Ruby indicates that it is currently positioned as 'the language of the next wave of applications.' This is consistent with what I'm hearing and seeing from many new startups." The bottom line? Your hosting plans ought to support both, and if your techs aren't already familiar with Rails, they probably should be.
One of the Web hosting industry's longest-standing citizens, Isabel Wang is also a high-tech enthusiast. Through her WHIR blog, she examines the impact emerging Web technologies will have on the Web hosting business, and on the motivations of hosting consumers.
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Comment by Anonymous on Sunday, April 08, 2007
I have not heard of ANY hosts supporting both Rails & PHP, but am definitely interested in such a host... Anyone know of some?
Thanks
Alan
Comment by Anonymous on Monday, April 09, 2007
Alan,
Many hosts do right now and it's becoming very common - just as Isabel predicted. Just do a Google search for Rails and PHP host and start digging. SurpassHosting.com does. :]