[Phpwm] PHP Vs .net

[Lester Caine]

Justin Joyce wrote:
> Long time lurker although have made one or two posts before…
> 
> I have a quick question (quick in that the question is short.. I don’t 
> imagine the answers will be!) on the subject of PHP vs .Net as a 
> development platform for large ecommerce sites…
> 
> Our current ecommerce site is built on a MS SQL database and has 
> recently been re-written in .net (previously asp). The site uses a 
> number of third party API’s who recommend the MS platform as their 
> preferred solution although in most cases we are aware of other sites 
> using the same API’s successfully in a PHP / MYSQL environment. What I 
> am looking for are your views on moving the site away from the current 
> MS platform to an open source solution utilising PHP and other open 
> source tools / databases… we have talked about it with the .net 
> developers and they are (naturally) bleating about lack of support and 
> all the usual BS…  therefore I guess my question is… Should PHP / MYSQL 
> be seriously considered for a reasonably busy ecommerce site that needs 
> 24 hour uptime, 99% reliability, PCI DSS compliant security etc etc.

Short answer - NO
Linux + Apache + PHP not problem, but a more stable database makes a lot 
of sense. Of cause I would push Firebird, since I've been relying on it 
for 15 Years ( even before it was open sourced ;) ) but Postgres has 
been playing a good game of catchup. But the main thing with this 
package is that you only pay for hardware, so 'spreading the load' if 
demand increases is easy.

> Thanks in advance for your time in reading this / answering.

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