Why small companies should choose PHP over ASP.NET for developing their business website?

Jul 21
08:34

2016

Rahim Makhani

Rahim Makhani

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Most entrepreneurs think that what difference it makes, whether I choose PHP or Asp.net for building my business website. But they are totally unaware that it makes a world of difference, both from th...

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Most entrepreneurs think that what difference it makes to give task to mobile app development company,Why small companies should choose PHP over ASP.NET for developing their business website? Articles whether I choose PHP or Asp.net for building my business website. But they are totally unaware that it makes a world of difference, both from the development and financial perspective. So here we list out the factors that make PHP a standout web programming language from Asp.net and many others.

Cost

PHP is free of cost.

Asp.net is costly.

Development can be done on any OS ie Linux, ubuntu etc which are freely available.

Development can be done on only Microsoft OS which is an expensive affair.

 

Performance

Now, what do we mean by performance capability of any website? This means that how well and fast the interaction between the script, server, and the back-end database takes place.

Whenever you are developing a web application in PHP, it uses LAMP an open source web development platform that uses Linux as the operating system, MySQL as the RDBMS, Apache as the web server and PHP as the object-oriented scripting language.  The LAMP stack ensures an enhanced performance which is all that you are looking for during web development.

Scalability

In the terms of scalability, both PHP and ASP.NET are equally proficient. It totally depends on upon the developers how well they are using either of them. The two most popular websites Facebook is built on PHP and MySpace is built on Asp.net. From this, we come to know that both PHP and asp.net is highly scalable as far as the developer knows how to scale the application. 

Support

Due to the open source nature, PHP has a large number of community members and friendly developers around the world who are deeply engaged in making improvements and updates compared to Asp.net. As a result, it will help in creating a beneficial support community and the abundant extension library.

Tools and Editors

One of the most widely used IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for PHP development is Eclipse. Asp.net is powered by different IDE, which comes loaded with multiple features. If the organization is powerful in terms of economically then asp.net is the good option to go for.

Deployment Time

When compared to PHP, Asp.net takes a large amount of time to achieve complex features and functionality. On the other hand, PHP is manipulated at the server side, so no additional steps are required to observe the changes. In other words, asp.net requires much more compilation each time when the code is modified. Also, the development process is more time consuming when using asp.net as opposed to PHP.

So now what your choice is going to be either PHP or Asp.net?  What I would prefer and suggest is to go for PHP as it is free of cost and open source too.