Posted by Jasen Betts on 02/11/06 02:23

On 2006-02-10, Brad <REMOVEspamfilter@luminateinc.comREMOVE> wrote:
> I know this is a tired debate, but I need to hear something not so Microsoft
> or anti-Micosoft biased. I need to decide which to use in a short amount of
> time. I'm an ASP.NET developer and don't know squat about PHP.
>
> - Is there anyone who has used both *proficiently* enough to give me a
> balanced answer?
> - What are the pros and cons of both? Is APACHE/PHP/MySQL scalable to 1
> million visitors/mo?

We use mostly PHP and Postgresql at work and serve about 5 requests
per second. accoss a number of different sites. load average is about 2%
for the web server and about the same for the database
except when the backup task is running. (around 0300 GMT)

> - How does that compare to IIS/ASP.NET/ADO.NET/SQL Server?

much cheaper :)

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Bye.
Jasen

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