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[Sri is the founder of Yulop and in this post, he shares tech tips for startups and delves into the basic parameters, startups should look at before deciding on the technology]
Well, when i started to use CGI scripting, it was PERL and ASP that ruled the tech world. On the contrary, PHP an open source revolution was just starting; and now after the release of 5th version, every web developer should understand what’s in PHP and why it can potentially replace ASP.net or the upcoming RoR.
I have worked on ASP.net but my
rationale behind choosing PHP was
only the fact that it’s open source and the cost of hosting and
cost of developing is very minimal!
History of PHP can be found in here
Performance Factor!
If your product uses ASP.net and
SQL server as a DB, it has to be
hosted on a IIS web server. If a
space is shared with IIS server, you
will always repent for all the SQL or
unhelpful “service unavailable” messages you get which are
traits of MS version of IIS. The
technology doesn’t suit large scale hosting and is quite
clearly unacceptable, if you hope to get major traffic to your
site.
[ex: Orkut is coded using ASP.net and
is hosted on IIS, you must be very
familiar with unhelpful pages i am refering to]
When compared to PHP hosted on Apache with a respectful MYSQL, you could substantially be more reliable and need not worry about any breakpoints.
