I am about to start developing a relatively simple bidding web app with a heavy usage of server side. I have experience with Django but I got a strange taste as Django makes you do the thing in a single way (sometimes finding that way was hard) as well I am not so familiar with Python.
On the other hand I am comfortable with Ruby but rails also look quite overkill. So remaining options are Nodejs which looks promising but I am not so sure what can it offer comparing to the other framework. And finally the old php.
What framework/language should I use? and can you give me an example which one do you use in which project?