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Originally Posted by SourceCode @DirtyLilFreak that's what i thought before clogging up my mind browsing and i found many alternatives and stuff. ******* used Ruby on rails, and e.t.c, Do you think its good to handle tons of data through php? __ ******** used alot of languages like c++, java e.t.c in the backend, What exactly do they do? i mean a clone such as phpfox uses just php and mysql and html, what ******** make use of c++ , java e.t.c? we don't have acesss to use them by normal hosting. I wanted to know what c++ was for, actually isn't it enough to use php for server side scripts, mysql for database (storing everything) and ajax or javascript to dynamically update wall posts? what else is required? and wtf is memchached for?

C++ and Java is used as wrapper plugins, just like GD plugin for PHP or MySQL J/MXJ ODBC connector for java. Memcached is a plugin which stores arbitrary data making it cache faster when required. Also ******** uses it's own web servers similar to Apache, try Python and Jython.

PHP and MySQL alone can't handle some complicated things, thus there is a requirement for more powerful language.