Re: moving over to php 5

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). /Per Jessen, Zürich