django vs php: a hard choice
maxklein: Trust me, go with PHP. Django is good to use if you are interested in learning a new language an improving your skills in python, but if you are interested in starting a company, then absolutely go with PHP. I've used Django for 2 big projects now, and I'm telling you this from experience. Here is why:1. Django is quite difficult to learn. You'll waste a month or two getting into the framework2. You will NOT find developers to work on Django, and the ones you do will be VERY expensive3. Once you know Django well, you'll find that there is not that much of a faster development cycle than PHP, unless you are doing something newspaper related. For newspaper related sites, there are shortcuts, but for everything else, it's pretty much the same routine4. Hosting for django is expensive. On a $10 a month host, a PHP site will run fast. For Django you need to get a $100 virtual server. Big difference.5. Django does very little PR, so the language seems to be cooling off in terms of visibility. This means - less applications, less snippets, few books. It's becoming a bit of an elitist culture, which sucks big time6. The IRC channel is becoming like the C++ channel. Snobby and condenscating.Recently, a person I know decided to rewrite his entire Django app in Rails because he could not find any developer for his Django app.It's not a hard choice. Go with PHP.