SynapseIndia gives comparison in PHP & ASP.NET in aspects of Costs, Scalability & Performance. ASP.NET and PHP are equally popular web development frameworks that come equipped with a host of features to simplify web development for developers.

1. Comparison in PHP & ASP.NET in
Terms of Costs, Scalability &
Performance

2. Overview of PHP

PHP signifies Hypertext Preprocessor.

Being open source, it is absolutely free and
powers more than 244 million websites at
present.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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

9. 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.

10. 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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