Social networking sites using ASP.NET or PHP

Question

I am familiar with both ASP.NET and PHP and now want to develop a social networking website. Before start development, I have been browsing some articles / forums and etc to find out which technology is suitable to develop and handle much traffic in future.

Some people prefer PHP for the development. Is this only because of:

• open source
• reduced hosting costs
• easy for development

Or does it (along with Apache) provide any performance improvement in heavy load times?

Answer 1

PHP, of course, it is too fast as compared to ASP.NET and also it is a cross-platform scripting language you can use it on any OS.

ASP.NET needs a Window OS which is so vulnerable and also slow down the website when hitting a heavy traffic.

So PHP with Apache on Linux is the Best Choice.

Answer 2

If I had the choice I would use .net, simply because I find it easier to work with.

Also I find I can do the complicated in .net far easier than with php. But I guess it is personal choice.

Answer 3

How do you plan to host your site? If you are using a hosting provider you may want to see if they provide .NET (Windows) hosting. Linux hosting is typically less expensive than Windows hosting.

Answer 4

PHP is the best choice! "open source" and "easy for development" are two Important reasons!