If you’re planning for a website development or a web application development, you will be needing web developers’ assistance. They might give you several options, among them could be to hire PHP developers or go with ASP.NET developers. Both of the languages are powerful and widely in-use. If you've some knowledge of them, it will be much easier to choose between the two. But if not, you don’t have to worry about it, as you've this post. I've made some comparisons between PHP and ASP.NET. These are enough for any layman to start the process for their new website development or web application development.
Overview of PHP
PHP or Hypertext Preprocessor is a famous scripting language. PHP is easy to learn and easy to work on. This made PHP among the top programming languages. As per an estimate, over 244 million websites are using PHP.
Do you know PHP comes in free and simplifies web development by providing number of frameworks? I think you just had made up your mind. But wait till this article ends.
Overview of ASP.NET
ASP.NET is a property of Microsoft. With ASP.NET, web development and web application development gets easier for the web developers. One more reasons of its popularity among the web developers is that they can code ASP.NET using any .NET supported language.
After this brief introduction to both the programming languages, let’s start with the comparison.
Costs
ASP.NET comes with a cost. The costs associated with ASP.NET development includes:
Whereas, PHP is free. Can be used on Linux, Windows and Mac. And has the support of both free and paid IDEs.
Performance
When it comes to performance, it is a combination of the script, the database and the server. PHP follows a LAMP stack which is a combination of:
The LAMP stack provides better performance and is popular for developing a website.
Whereas, combining the effort of ASP.NET and MSSQL create a stack that is just like that of the PHP and MySQL. ASP.NET is also flexible to replace MSSQL with MySQL.
Operating systems and the file systems used on the server, both will affect the performance of two platforms.
Support
Not only free but it has a vast open source developer community. This helping community is always contributing to PHP development. And beginners can take great advantage of it.
Although, ASP.NET has also wide community but no way it can beat PHP’s community. If ASP.NET was free like PHP, it could probably challenge PHP’s community.
Editors
PHP codes can be written on any free to use text editors like VIM and Notepad++. And if the PHP developers need to use some IDE, they can use Eclipse. IDEs like Eclipse provide huge support to the developers.
ASP.NET is mostly used with Visual Studio but it is also supported with other IDEs. Microsoft Visual Studio doesn't come in free but it is a real powerful, rightly equipped with features and with flexible IDEs.
Easy
PHP is easier than ASP.NET, everyone knows this. The reason for ASP.NET being hard to get is that it is usually written on C#. And C# is written on C, which is hard to understand. For many experts, ASP.NET is also hard to get.
Although, many of the experts don’t consider PHP developers as experts. But yet PHP is more popular than ASP.NET. And this makes it among the top 6 programming languages.
Popular websites
PHP
In conclusion to the above comparisons, I will highly recommend to hire PHP developers. But it doesn't mean that you just have to follow my lead. You can hire ASP.Net developers, as this is also vastly in use and is also a powerful programming language.
Overview of PHP
PHP or Hypertext Preprocessor is a famous scripting language. PHP is easy to learn and easy to work on. This made PHP among the top programming languages. As per an estimate, over 244 million websites are using PHP.
Do you know PHP comes in free and simplifies web development by providing number of frameworks? I think you just had made up your mind. But wait till this article ends.
Overview of ASP.NET
ASP.NET is a property of Microsoft. With ASP.NET, web development and web application development gets easier for the web developers. One more reasons of its popularity among the web developers is that they can code ASP.NET using any .NET supported language.
After this brief introduction to both the programming languages, let’s start with the comparison.
Costs
ASP.NET comes with a cost. The costs associated with ASP.NET development includes:
- ASP.NET development is a Microsoft’s product and they only allow it on Windows machine. So, buying Windows is the initial cost of using ASP.NET.
- Windows hosting is required for ASP.NET, which costs the ASP.NET developers. But this is comparatively less than what it was a few years ago.
- ASP.NET development also need a development environment like Visual Studio. Although Microsoft offers free version of Visual Studio called VS Express. But once the ASP.NET developers need to upgrade to professional stage, they’ll be needing to spend some pounds. For Mac and Linux users, ASP.NET developers can use Mono project to get things done.
Whereas, PHP is free. Can be used on Linux, Windows and Mac. And has the support of both free and paid IDEs.
Performance
When it comes to performance, it is a combination of the script, the database and the server. PHP follows a LAMP stack which is a combination of:
- Linux
- Apache
- MySQL
- PHP
The LAMP stack provides better performance and is popular for developing a website.
Whereas, combining the effort of ASP.NET and MSSQL create a stack that is just like that of the PHP and MySQL. ASP.NET is also flexible to replace MSSQL with MySQL.
Operating systems and the file systems used on the server, both will affect the performance of two platforms.
Support
Not only free but it has a vast open source developer community. This helping community is always contributing to PHP development. And beginners can take great advantage of it.
Although, ASP.NET has also wide community but no way it can beat PHP’s community. If ASP.NET was free like PHP, it could probably challenge PHP’s community.
Editors
PHP codes can be written on any free to use text editors like VIM and Notepad++. And if the PHP developers need to use some IDE, they can use Eclipse. IDEs like Eclipse provide huge support to the developers.
ASP.NET is mostly used with Visual Studio but it is also supported with other IDEs. Microsoft Visual Studio doesn't come in free but it is a real powerful, rightly equipped with features and with flexible IDEs.
Easy
PHP is easier than ASP.NET, everyone knows this. The reason for ASP.NET being hard to get is that it is usually written on C#. And C# is written on C, which is hard to understand. For many experts, ASP.NET is also hard to get.
Although, many of the experts don’t consider PHP developers as experts. But yet PHP is more popular than ASP.NET. And this makes it among the top 6 programming languages.
Popular websites
PHP
- WordPress
- MySpace
- PlentyOfFish.com
In conclusion to the above comparisons, I will highly recommend to hire PHP developers. But it doesn't mean that you just have to follow my lead. You can hire ASP.Net developers, as this is also vastly in use and is also a powerful programming language.
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