Try getting Django to run on various hosting sites. Dreamhost - been with them for ten years, gave up trying to get Django to work after a month of poring thru the docs, trying to get tab A into slot 3x. Mind you, I really like Python, but it's not worth the effort for a couple more years.
PHP is the A-10 of languages. It's a slow, ugly and easy target. It works pretty much everywhere.
For pretty much every language these days, there is a hosted service that will handle deployment for you, and you can just push code to them and they'll take care of the rest. Better yet, they're perfect for beginners, who usually don't know much about database tuning, firewalls, etc.
Yeah, but the average person doesn't really understand how their PHP is set up either. It was done for them, or they copy and pasted some instructions.
Perhaps it's best if you either completely take deployment into your own hands, or you let someone else do it for you. Given all that, rolling your own could still be made simpler.
PHP is the A-10 of languages. It's a slow, ugly and easy target. It works pretty much everywhere.