Dhananjay Nene

Let's put the term "framework" aside. The Wikipedia article states it is "a basic conceptual structure used to solve or address complex issues, usually a set of tools, materials or components". I believe a scripting language that is pre-designed for website design could be considered a framework, but it's not that important whether there is a consensus.

I'd like to see your source for the performance claim. To my own I can bring e.g.

http://xodian.net/serendipity/index.php?/archives/27-Benchmark-PHP-vs.-Python-vs.-Perl-vs.-Ruby.html

http://blog.dhananjaynene.com/2008/07/performance-comparison-c-java-python-ruby-jython-jruby-groovy/

I found threading a great shortcoming of PHP. I had web services that required data from several sources and was in need of querying in parallel. there are about 370,000 results for +php +multithreading on Google so I assume it's more than just myself.

Your claim does not line up with reality. http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programming-languages-are-fastest.php

http://blog.dhananjaynene.com/2011/08/cperformance-comparison-languages-styles-and-vms-java-scala-python-erlang-clojure-ruby-groovy-javascript/

Those Clojure benchmarks in the above post were submitted by me to show that you can get Java/Scala performance.

EDIT: Toned down the rhetoric

Brute forcing:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025520

I think a new admin needs to read up on locking down ports in iptables, Bastille, snort, filesystem fingerprinting and some checklists:

http://www.mnxsolutions.com/blog/apache/securing-your-server.html

http://blog.dhananjaynene.com/2009/10/configuring-a-secure-ubuntu-linux-virtual-private-server/