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Richard, Not suited to larger sites? - Facebook and a dozen other "mega size" sites run under LAMP (linux apache MySql Php) PHP is easier to maintain, has heaps of add-ons, caches very very well indeed and has far more developers if you need to put stuff our for a little help! Plus, its rarely the compiler language that holds things up on large sites - its normally misconfiguration or bad programming! Optimize your code - Pay close attention to far future expiry headers, use e-tags or properly versioned files, gzip all your output, place good optimised CSS high in the document, place as many scripts as you can at the bottom - use a good CDN and you can get PHP to perform at breathtaking speed! Alan Richard Brown wrote: Hi Guys Just got this from a developer I am working with on a large project. Can anyone offer me insight please? "in terms of the platform development, im thinking about switching from using php to c#. the downside to this is the requirement for a windows server and the problem of running visual studio (c# ide) on a mac! so this affects the running costs of the platform, but there could be a massive long term saving. c# is alot nicer for development especially for big platforms, its also compiled to machine code so a webserver can serve more users alot more efficiently. php is ok but at the end of the day its still a scripted language, and its not well suited to such big platforms (in my opinion at least). i will most likely be moving to c#, unless you can think of any problems this may pose?" Thanks. |
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