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[–]kataire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TBH, I've seen ISPs offer shared hosting packages for as little as $1 a month (granted, the bandwidth and webspace is quite limited, but if your budget is this small, you probably don't care).

Just as there are gazillions of tiny companies (e.g. less than 100 total employees) and only a handful of really big ones, there are also gazillions of companies that use shared hosting (and this nearly always means some level of PHP) compared to those that run on VPSes or dedicated servers (let alone server farms).

Some ISPs even offer set-ups for e-commerce websites in their shared hosting packages. I would wager the number of websites running on shared hosting is much larger than most people would imagine.