ASP
(Activity server pages)
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VERSUS
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PHP
(Hypertext preprocessor)
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ASP requires
- initial cost
- ongoing cost
for maintenance and debugging,.
- ASP libraries will come with a price tag.
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Terms of Price
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PHP is free.
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ASP developers is limited
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Developer community
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-PHP developers have contributed to a variety of open source projects.
-PHP has a fairly large developer community that is active in reporting bugs and creating additional PHP libraries.
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MS-SQL that is a product of Microsoft
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Database Connectivity
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-Uses MySQL
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ASP can only work with
-Window based platforms.
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Platform compatibility
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PHP programs can also run in
-Windows, Solaris, Unix and Linux
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ASA uses
-Visual Basic as base language and limited to some product of Windows.
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Base Language
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PHP uses
- C/C++ as base language and most syntax.
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To connect to database, the users ASP
--need to purchase MS-SQL, which is a Microsoft product.
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Costs
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To connect to databases of which the most commonly used is the MySQL. Note that MySQL
- would not cost a thing to use.
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ASP
-uses an overhead server
- and is uses a COM based architecture,
so ASP runs slowly.
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Speed
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PHP
-codes runs much quickly, it runs in
-own memory space
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THE NUMBERS
The following charts and benchmarks are taken from WrenSoft and quite simply show the difference. This first graph shows the time taken to generate and display results for a search a small website.
As you can see, the average time for the php site: 0.1500 seconds, the time for Asp.Net: 0.0150 seconds... that is a HUGE difference, the php search takes 10 times as long! The next one does the same with a larger site, and the results are not much different.
