What is the trend ASP.Net or PHP ?

[lightng]

Thanks for the symfony recommendation, installed and started tutorials now. To be honest I've steered clear of all this MVC malarky not needing that type of development but this looks pretty good fun.

It'll help my plan z be a bit more robust by the looks of it.

If NickFitz says its good, it probably is good. My opinion doesn't count for much but for the record, I think it rocks.

[Ardesco]

I would say that in the current economic climate PHP has the potential to start picking up. A LAMP setup is significantly cheaper than an ASP.net setup and can be just as powerful in the right hands.

[jkoder]

JSP! (Java)

It's as popular as anything else you can think of when it comes to commercial usage. Don't under estimate how many web based UI's and Intranets are written in this.

[DimPrawn]

I would say that in the current economic climate PHP has the potential to start picking up. A LAMP setup is significantly cheaper than an ASP.net setup and can be just as powerful in the right hands.

How is a LAMP setup significantly cheaper than an ASP.net setup?

Lets say you are choosing your host.

Fasthosts shared hosting on RedHat Linux is the same price as hosting on Windows.

A dedicated server on Fasthosts: A Linux server of the same spec as a Windows server is £10/month cheaper.

If £10 per month is significantly cheaper, it must be a pretty lame business you are planning!

http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/dedicated.../ds-850_linux/

[Ardesco]

How is a LAMP setup significantly cheaper than an ASP.net setup?

Lets say you are choosing your host.

Fasthosts shared hosting on RedHat Linux is the same price as hosting on Windows.

A dedicated server on Fasthosts: A Linux server of the same spec as a Windows server is £10/month cheaper.

If £10 per month is significantly cheaper, it must be a pretty lame business you are planning!

http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/dedicated.../ds-850_linux/

If you are going to go into business that is dependabt on your website and you are expecting decent growth you won't be using shared hosting, you will be setting up your own servers and probably looking at a real db. The license cost for SQL server, windows server and associated products (ms exchange for email?) are going to run into 10's of thousands of pounds. The equivelent open source offerings are free.

Not to mention a stripped down Linux system running only a command line can run on lower powered hardware whilst providing similar performance. If you are looking for lowest cost open source wins every time!!

[Ardesco]

JSP! (Java)

It's as popular as anything else you can think of when it comes to commercial usage. Don't under estimate how many web based UI's and Intranets are written in this.

Javascript != Java!!!

They are very different beasts

[basshead]

Javascript != Java!!!

They are very different beasts

JSP != Javascript!!!

They are very different beasts

[SirSickboy]

If you are going to go into business that is dependabt on your website and you are expecting decent growth you won't be using shared hosting

Fasthosts

[DimPrawn]

If you are going to go into business that is dependabt on your website and you are expecting decent growth you won't be using shared hosting, you will be setting up your own servers and probably looking at a real db. The license cost for SQL server, windows server and associated products (ms exchange for email?) are going to run into 10's of thousands of pounds. The equivelent open source offerings are free.

Not to mention a stripped down Linux system running only a command line can run on lower powered hardware whilst providing similar performance. If you are looking for lowest cost open source wins every time!!

£10K ???

You is aving a larf.



Still, keep dreaming you are saving £10K by using LAMP.

[DimPrawn]

Fasthosts

I use Fasthosts for one of my dedicated servers and it superb and has been for a very long time.