[Phpwm] PHP Vs .net

[Dave Holmes]

Hi Justin,

We have been through two years+ development on our own e-commerce
platform which is based entirely on OS technologies and is running many
websites on the same infrastructure. In terms of should PHP be
considered for "24 hour uptime, 99% reliability" this is not really a
consideration as this is just the programming language, If your
infrastructure fails it does not matter what you developed in...

The real question is can you create a robust environment using open
source technologies and the answer is yes!

For example it's fairly straight forward to set-up a pair of load
balancers running in active / passive mode with automated fail-over that
proxy the requests to a farm or web servers running apache / php. You
can then play around with switching of individual servers to mimic
hardware failures and see how the environment copes. To trial all this
we had 6 fedora core servers running virtually inside VMware which saves
loads of set-up time and having a load of rackmounts at the end of the
desk ;)  Search the web for things like "Heartbeat", "Pound", "NGINX"

MySQL also has loads of HA options ranging from full clusters right
through to simple replication it really comes down to what you are
after, if the .net developers are worried about support buy them a
support licence! You need support when things go wrong can't say I have
really had problems with MySQL and therefore no support requirements
unlike my distant past tangling with the wast of space that was MSSQL

Dave




Justin Joyce wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
>  
>
> 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.
>
>  
>
> Thanks in advance for your time in reading this / answering.
>
>  
>
> Cheers
>
>  
>
> Justin
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