ASP>NET vs. PHP - what are the pros and cons

Hi,

I was wondering what the pros and cons are between an ecommerce site built with either ASP.NET or PHP?

Thanks

 

php and asp have roughly the same capabilities, but they operate in different environments.
asp/.net is created by microsoft. it runs on windows, and using this setup kinda makes you their bitch. recommended for microsoft fans and those with deep pockets.
php is maintained by its own volunteer community. it runs on linux, and using this setup will frustrate you to no end since nothing works right the first time, and the documentation assumes you know everything. recommended for the do-it-yourself types, and people who live in their parents' basement

 

ASP is the short term for Active Server Pages, a type of program that works with Microsoft alongside IIS or Internet Information Server.
Choosing between ASP and PHP basically depends on your own personal preference. t hurt to confer with other programmers or webmasters and research more information on which programming would best fit the requirements of your website.
When it comes to costing and expenses, ASP programs needs to run on Windows with IIS installed on the server.
On the other, PHP or Hypertext Preprocessor, runs using Linux or Unix server.
ASP needs a Microsoft Server for the website to work.
Just recently, ASP can now run on a Linux platform given that there is an ASP-Apache program installed on its server.
On the other hand, a PHP would only require running on a Linux server, which you can get at no cost.
PHP codes runs much quicker than ASP basically because it runs in its very own memory space while ASP uses an overhead server and is uses a COM based architecture.
The more updated PHP programs can now run on an NT server.
This is basically because Visual Basic is basically correlated with Microsoft products and programs.

 

ASP can run on Linux with Mono and PHP works on Windows too.

PHP can active documentation, and the open source advantage. In fact you can find all sorts of modules in PHP.

 

Since PHP is open source it's much more cost-effective than ASP. They both can accomplish relatively the same thing.

 

With PHP you will have more "support" from forums and webmaster.
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PHP is cheaper compare to ASP in software and programmers cost.

 

Interesting that everyone is only comparing costs from a build and maintainance perspective and no one is actually considering the actual framework/ languages against each other, the only one that did refered to classic ASP and not .Net......