Why Dont A Lot Of Free-hosts Support PHP ?

[xaxxon 0]

Wow, i see alot of people DO NOT support php for free webhosting. does anyone know why?

Edited February 17, 2006 by miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG (see edit history)

[finaldesign1405241487 0]

because. Anywhere, here at Xisto it's supported, as many other stuff. MANY.

Wow, i see alot of people DO NOT support php for free webhosting. does anyone know why?

[AntLvK 0]

good one finaldesign.. hahaha

[nightfox1405241487 0]

Wow, i see alot of people DO NOT support php for free webhosting. does anyone know why?

Most free hosts (excluding Xisto) care only about making lots of $$$ off of their customers. But even then, my first major website was hosted with Yahoo! GeoCities. I was paying $8.95 a month and I didn't get PHP or MySQL, CGI, Perl or any "good stuff". I'm on another paying host which I only pay $8.85 a month and I get more disk space, bandwidth, and all the goodies Yahoo didn't offer me, for less!

This is why it is very important to shop around first.

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[NewGuyinTown 0]

Wow, i see alot of people DO NOT support php for free webhosting. does anyone know why?

People abuse most scripting languages such as spamming email, etc. People do not want their reputation to be scarred or damaged in anyway, so therefore prohibit or limit the use of these kinds of languages.

However, this is a biased answer based on my limited knowledge. Most servers that I host my website on and is ad-free, supports php, and does not require any qualifications but to register are always down. The causes for most of their downtime with the exception of upgrades are hackers, abusers, etc.

Most free hosts (excluding Xisto) care only about making lots of $$$ off of their customers.

I do agree that most free webhosts care about making money, especially the ones that require the freeloaders to place an ad on their webpage. I don't see how much more money they are making by restricting PHP and other common languages.

I therefore concludes: restricting php and other dangerous languages reduces the hassle for the webhost.
It is unlikely for a paying customer to use his/her webspace to abuse. If so, he/she will forfeit the service without a refund.
Edited February 17, 2006 by NewGuyinTown (see edit history)