Tips For Small Business Website Development: ASP.Net Vs. PHP

The three issues which need to be looked upon are discussed herewith and these will be able to solve most of your difficulties in choosing the right solution for your website to go live. They are:

1. PHP or ASP.Net?

Both PHP and ASP.net are most popular and used by many big websites such as Google, Facebook and Bing.com. Both these languages have certain advantages as well as disadvantages of their own but both are powerful enough to power some of the worlds most visited websites these days. What you actually need to do is to decide which language you are going to use to build the business website design upon. After this you can decide upon the best web hosting server. These are the first things to decide to avoid wastage of resources in trying to make the things work.


2. Linux or Windows based hosting?

Your selection of web hosting OS depends on which programming language you are going to use. Will you build your website using ASP.net or PHP language? PHP language is an open source language and runs well with open source platforms such as Linux, Apache, PHP and MySQL and the hosting normally costs less than the ASP.net. The downside is that due to the PHP resource accessibility, anybody can do coding with the PHP language. It makes the IT managers in getting misled in believing that the PHP language is not secured as ASP.net which runs on the Windows web hosting only is not an open source language. Most of the ASP.net programmers depend on MS Visual studio to aid the .NET application development. So we can say that ASP.net is not flexible enough than PHP. It does not mean ASP.net is a bad programming language or Windows hosting is not good, it’s actually about choices. The programming languages used in designing websites determine the use of OS for web hosting servers. Some website designing experts recommend the use of ASP.net if the website you’re going to post happens to be an e-commerce site.


3. VPS, Shared or dedicated hosting?

If you are having good resources, owning a server is mostly recommended so the leasing web server is a feasible option but the big question remains whether we use a virtual private server [VPS], dedicated or a shared hosting server. In this context, if you expect your site will not get enough visitors, you should go for a shared web hosting and it is affordable too. It will surely help you in minimizing the startup cost and it will also allow you in sharing the resources with others. So you can have multiple user accounts in the web server. If your site requires more resources to handle thousands of web visitors every day, you should consider VPS hosting but if the website needs to handle tens of thousands web visitors daily, the VPS may no longer facilitate this huge request. Best advice will be to start with minimal and later on upgrade to a better plan as per the need of your website.


Starting things right always saves you from future problems!

The author of this article is a renowned Website design services provider having worked for many web applications development companies.