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by fogihujy 1743 days ago
In PHP's case it's about WordPress which still being deployed at a very high rate. While the blogging thing isn't that much in focus anymore, WordPress + Divi + WooCommerce is an extremely common stack for setting up eCommerce sites.

An yes, then there's Drupal, Laravel, Symfony, and many others, and they're going strong too. Heck, even Joomla is actively developed even though it's probably small enough today to be considered legacy.
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todotask 1743 days ago
cPanel could probably included, it's nearly on all web hosts.
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Veen 1743 days ago
cPanel is Perl, not PHP.
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todotask 1742 days ago
Yes, majority of websites (legacy on PHP 5.6 and modern site in PHP 7+) use CPanel. Even thought that cPanel is written in Perl.

Most newbie coders would start out coding their own blogs in PHP/Nodejs or Python on shared hosting, some web host use web framework as well.

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AzzieElbab 1743 days ago
Probably true. Another thing I’ve missed are all those admin and status pages for iot and networking equipment
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Fuzzeh 1743 days ago
And facebook...
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fogihujy 1742 days ago
Facebook has done impressive things with PHP, but they are one single entity. WordPress is an entire ecosystem with millions of users, and while Facebook changing their underlying stuff wouldn't be noticed by most, I can assure you there would be a large amount of people who noticed if WordPress decided to switch to ASP.NET or something.
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