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ASP.NET and PHP are equally popular web development frameworks that come equipped with a host of features to simplify web development for developers.
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Comparison in PHP & ASP.NET in Terms of Costs, Scalability & Performance
Overview of PHP • PHP signifies Hypertext Preprocessor. • Being open source, it is absolutely free and powers more than 244 million websites at present.
Overview of PHP • WordPress and Facebook are some of the most prominent websites built in PHP. • It boasts of a large developer community. • The number of businesses looking to hire PHP developers(see detailed Infographic for more) for website development is constantly increasing day-by-day.
Overview of ASP.NET • Developed by Microsoft, ASP.NET serves an an easy-to-use scripting tool for web development. • Some of the most prominent websites built in ASP.NET are PlentyOfFish.com and MySpace.
Overview of ASP.NET • Its a successor to Microsoft’s Active Server Pages (ASP). • One of the major reasons behind its initial popularity upsurge was Microsoft’s domination of the web browser market in the earlier times.
ASP.NET Vs PHP - Cost Aspect • As ASP.NET is a Microsoft product, it is available to developers for a fixed price. • Buying Windows is essentially required with ASP.NET as development for this framework can take place on a Windows machine only.
ASP.NET Vs PHP - Cost Aspect • Also, Windows Hosting is needed for ASP.NET that is far expensive than Linux Web hosting. • PHP is open source and hence absolutely free. • PHP can run on Linux Web hosting that is cheaper than Windows Hosting. • PHP can be used on either Windows, Mac or Linux as per requirement.
ASP.NET Vs PHP - Scalability Aspect • Both the web development frameworks are highly scalable. • The degree to scale the web app using either of these platforms to a large extent depends on the skill of the developer
ASP.NET Vs PHP - Scalability Aspect • Consider the example of websites built using these frameworks for scalability - MySpace built using ASP.NET and Facebook using PHP.
ASP.NET Vs PHP - Performance Aspect • Database used for ASP.NET is Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL) • Database used for PHP is MySQL as it follows the LAMP stack which has been optimized for enhanced performance. • Performance difference between the two is quite small - with PHP+MySQL gaining the edge over ASP.NET+MSSQL
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