ASP.Net or PHP?

[katie-xx]

I have hardly any web application development experience except for being involved in maintaining a small asp.net site with SqlServer back end.

For me the big advantage of asp.Net is being able to use C# and ado.net technologies.
However, I have noticed hosting is very expensive for SqlServer.

Im sure some of you guys are experienced web developers ..... any preferences and why over asp.net??

Kate

[Tibuda]

Ruby on Rails. The Ruby language is very nice to work on, and there are plugins available for many stuff.

[katie-xx]

Thanks for that.
And the database would be ?


Kate

[phrostbyte]

If you have ASP.NET experience, you can still utilize it on Linux.

apt://mono-devel,xsp2,monodevelop

But if you want to try something new, I second RoR. :)

[phrostbyte]

For database, I'd go with MySQL.

sudo tasksel install lamp

will get you set up

[katie-xx]

ok thanks for advice.
lamp looks good

I dont have any website experience .....I do develop for tag based IE applications but its not quite the same.
We just use it as a form that will hold activex. :)

Watch this space :)


Kate

[_h_]

For database, I'd go with MySQL.

Or MySQLi for performance boost with table operations and less overhead.