[floatboth]

More like, a lot of garbage outdated tutorials available online. Copy and paste to get SQL injection vulnerabilities! Easy!

Seriously, what is "not easy" about Postgres? Just read the official documentation, which is actually readable and good.

About hobby hosting… there is Heroku Postgres, but no Heroku MySQL. (There are third party addons for everything, yeah). Cheap shared Apache hosting is TERRIBLE. It should NOT be used for any new projects.

[chvid]

Yeah. Popularity and the ability to work at cheap horrible apache hosting companies all the way to big bad facebook does speak volumes, doesn't it? :-)