[jbergens]

I think some things are connected. PHP does not have shared memory like static members. This makes it very easy to run in on clusters. No one cares if one server goes down and is replaced by another. This also makes it hard to write large systems that are supposed to run in a controlled cluster and cache things. Java and .NET are very good for those things. So PHP is good for the web hotels and Java and .NET are better for company IT/devs or any project where you can manage your servers for yourself (even if it is a cluster in Amazons or MS centers).

I'm not sure what Microsoft i letting slide, they have PHP support in Azure and .NET support (and Node etc). More expensive that the lowest cost PHP web hotels but not expensive.