Which is the best server-side language for website development?

Answer 1

Node js?

Answer 2

I've heard php has some lackings in security and it's kind of slow

Answer 3

it's a taste question ^^
personally neither php nor node.js got my preference, but python do ;)

Anyway, the most used one is php, wich come with almost all basic host solutions... node.js or python requires often most advanced (and less cheap) host solution, where you could install what you want on sever side (but that means also more skill required), even if there are few ready-to-use basic python solutions (maybe also for node.js, but I don't know ^^) even free or at least cheap (with some limitations obviously, but enough for personal / low traffic / test site purposes), such as pythonanywhere.com, heroku.com, aws.amazon.com...

https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&client=ms-android-samsung&source=android-browser&q=python+hosting