On 30/10/2007, Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Larry Garfield wrote: > > > On Monday 29 October 2007, Per Jessen wrote: > >> Cristian Vrabie wrote: > >> > Hmm 117,223 hosts with php4 only support. Did you actually checked > >> > how many have php5 support? Many more. > >> > >> There are 178.112 hosters that have PHP5 support. I checked. > > > > Where and how did you check? > > Well, I didn't. I just provided a silly answer to an impossible > question. There is no way anyone could possibly come up with a > remotely accurate number of how many hosters have this or that. So I > made the numbers up. $RANDOM. > > > I have a hard time believing that there are 300,000 different > > commercial web hosting companies out there. That many servers, sure, > > but companies? > > 300,000 is probably a lot, yes. Still, Switzerland alone has roughly > 335.000 companies. About 400 of those are members of a Swiss > association for ISPs, but there's probably another couple of hundred > that aren't. Extrapolating from e.g. 500 webhosters for a population > of 7million, that would make roughly 35,000 in the EU (pop. 480mill). Besides, the set of fictitious companies that support PHP4 and the set of fictitious companies that support PHP5 probably intersect to a large extent. In fact, I researched the matter thoroughly a couple of minutes ago and found that 108,064 companies support both versions of PHP, so there's only a total of 187,271 PHP hosting companies. Anyone still do PHP/FI? -robin -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
