Robin Vickery wrote:
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
this is darn silly. it doesn't matter to know how many hosting companies
support what type if php. it's enough to know that there are ENOUGH that
support php5 and you have a preaty wide range of choices. For me the
answer is obvious. The actual advantages of using php5 are far greater
than the minutes i'll spend finding a suitable hosting company.
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