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Choosing Technologies for Your Web Startup (Part 2)

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Consider, for example, that Facebook recently created their own implementation of PHP that can significantly reduce costs for “Facebook scale” companies, while promising a smoother transition for those of us who choose PHP now. Cloud computing” is simply a new pricing plan for hosting. Java, PHP, Python, Ruby?

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The Other Amazon Deal this week. Drupal founder attracts over $100 Million in 3 months.

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Plus, there are tons of expenses like servers, bandwidth, office space, travel and the time of many professionals. Acuia provides premium, high security, supported hosting to it’s customers, which all runs on top of Amazon AWS. Because they are open source. more info on the funding round from @thewhir [link].

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