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I've just compiled a page of links for a political site I have been working on, in all there are over 800 of them on this page...
Out of this 800+ there are:
200 using ASP and 1 using PHP! That's right... 1...
Now all of these are large global sites of major status, so if PHP is that amazing, how come only one of them uses it?
I've just compiled a page of links for a political site I have been working on, in all there are over 800 of them on this page...
Out of this 800+ there are:
200 using ASP and 1 using PHP! That's right... 1...
Now all of these are large global sites of major status, so if PHP is that amazing, how come only one of them uses it?
But when I was getting into the whole Web Site area, I was thinking ASP is the thing to use, but now I've done some research, I feel PHP is better .... as it's cheaper :o)
Guess those sites just don't do research. Channel 5 use PHP, so guess they were clever little:o)
Another factor is if you get TAUGHT web development you get taught ASP. Because of this, there are hundreds of Microsoft developers to every one Unix developer.
If you need evidence as to its superiority, just go to the most popular and useful site on the Internet - Google. For their dynamic pages they use PHP.
PHP is like Unix - it's superior to Windows* (for the Internet) but because of its philosophy, and that people just won't accept that anything free is good, it's not reached dominance yet.
Ananova, BBC, Bloomberg, CNN, Euronews, ITN, Sky, Home Office, London Assembley, UN, NATO...
The argument that no one will use it because it's free is a bit crap... HTML is free? ONe of the reasons is existing infrastructure... As pointed out already, if your laready MS based with your LAN etc, it's cheaper and easier to continue with that platform, if your staring out new, then you'd look at all of the options...
We have looked into Linux/PHP here, but quite frankly the support that NS offers is too good to turn down as well as the support we get from DELL on our servers.
Just to put you in the picture with what it would cost us to change our entire infrastructure to cope... Currently we have:
24 Web Servers (2 Secure / https)
2 Domain Controllers (BIG IP's)
3 Database Servers (1 Redundant)
All run IIS, SQL, MS2000 and ASP.
We host over 200 sites all dynamic ones feeding off ASP (about 75%) and most of those dynamic ones involve some form of security password system on them.
The cost of this little lot alone and the installation comes near to the 1,000,000 mark and gives us 24/7/365 up time.
Could you imagine the cost for converting our systems to use PHP instead let alone Linux/Unix?
Just out of interest, how secure is PHP?
Click here to see the apache module chart which shows php is installed in 50% of apache servers. That means that 32% of web servers have apache with php which is higher then the total number of IIS servers out there.