I believe Unix system is good as a backend server. For front end programming language, php/jsp/javascript etc.... are under consideration. Anyone please suggest the good combination with some running references of community sites like facebook(uses php), orkut, myspace, etc..... Thanks for the reply.
Dont be fooled by file extensions. Myspace now runs on .Net (see http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/arch...ion-Page-Views-Per-Day-Using-ASP.NET-2.0.aspx) and now that FaceBook and Microsoft are getting ever closer I wouldnt be surprised if they moved over to .Net as well. It is a basic security trick to hide your serverside language by using the wrong file extension for it.
nice insight you pointed out and thanks for the link. well, what about the server and other necessary ingredients for web-development for a medium-to-big size community site. actually i was trying to figure out the pros and cons of using jsp and asp.net and i found this . it shows most of the things that are almost similar but with asp.net u have to pay the deployment cost (hosting)etc. while with jsp everything is free. Anyone want to highlight more on the differences and their preferences.
The article that you linked to was ASP not .Net. Personally I think .Net is great, it is true OOP, it is very quick to program in and as the code is precompiled I think you will find few people who know what their talking about that will dispute that it will be the quickest to run all other things being equal. I have never got this "its more expensive" claims either, certainly with our webhost it is cheaper to host .Net than it is to host on *nix when both are using a MySQL db. If you upgrade the .Net account to MS SQL (which is a better partner for .Net) then you pay a massive $2 a year more but for that have both MySQL and MS SQL dbs.