Posted by Colin McKinnon on 06/16/05 17:19

thehuby wrote:

> Because PHP is extremely easy to program (though I am a JSP developer
> not a .NET one) in comparison. It also has, far and away (IMHO) the
> best resources and open source material on the internet - someone has
> already done most of the hard work for you if you are any good at using
> Google :)
>
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>
> I'm a JSP developer predominantly but have really come to appreciate
> PHP - things are so easy in it that for small scale apps it is a good
> choice. I also think that people overplay the performance issues - if
> you have a good dedicated server for PHP it is not going to be much
> different in speed than a JSP or .NET server.
>

Define scale.

In terms of dealing with huge volumes of throughput, PHP scales much more
easily across a cluster than JSP (no RMI overhead). It's just a matter of
throwing more iron at the problem. If you're Google, then hardware cost
will outweigh programmer time, but if you're Google you probably won't be
using JSP/ASP either.

> If you want to start looking at larger scale apps then I would suggest
> JSP/J2EE and .NET offer a better framework for developing, but not
> because of performance - having precomiled classes & webpages as well
> as strong typing mean that run time errors are much less likely to
> happen.
>

I think we had this debate already.

C.

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