Both technologies are used in large web applications and large successful websites. Therefore, both languages are great to handle any large eCommerce store. But the resource and deployment is easier on PHP compare to ASP.net. Please review below considerable points for the comparison between 2 programming languages/platforms.
There are few factors to be considered that will prove to select programming language over the other.
Scalability & Ease of Maintenance
It has nothing to do with PHP or ASP.NET, it completely depends upon
i. Programmer’s experience
ii. Programming practices
iii. Following the programming guidelines & standard (e.g. if it is well commented, followed MVC, etc.)
iv. And programming framework used for the development.
Performance & Speed
This subject has been in hot discussion for the long time and people participated in the debate, have been particular to promote one of the technologies instead of informing the audience.
There are many factors to count when you really want to measure the speed of any web application, thus I don’t see any noticeable reason for any programming language over the speed and performance of the web applications. But other related things make effects in the speed & performance. Below is the analysis of some common and uncommon scenarios in this regard
Scenario 1: This is very common of any website, the website would be to access and query the database and output the result on the web server and then to the web browser. So on this scenario, all programming are doing their part fairly as they communicate and interface with database server and web servers properly. So the speed of the technology doesn’t to do anything with it but the speed of this process depends on the database server, web server, client’s web browser / computer and bandwidth.
When it comes to compare most used databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL and Oracle all are fighting for speed and performance. We regularly see new features and performance revised by the data server in every latest upgrade. Therefore, all databases have great performances if the developer uses optimized SQL queries when needed and can use advanced features such as caching etc.
Based on the research, the communication and interfacing between PHP and MySQL are faster than ASP.net and MSSQL but that is not highly noticeable.
Scenario 2: It is again to communicate to access the file and find images to send them to the web server. Where programming languages don’t have a lot to do as it depends on the type of operating System, file type/size which has the liability of communicating with the programming language.
Most veteran says, the Linux OS and ext4 (file system) performs better than Windows OS and NTFS (file system).
Scenario 3: It is not a common scenario. ASP.net is written in C# (called C sharp) it is saying that C# is faster than PHP. Thus, if a web page needs to execute a 2,000,000 loops execution of a calculation, C# will win over PHP. However it doesn’t happen very often, the most loop execution of a calculation could be in 100s or in 1000s but not in 2,000,000s.
Some additional factors can also have an effect on the performance, but that nothing to do with programming languages:
i. Programmer’s ability to optimize the code.
ii. Programmer’s ability to write advanced and optimized database queries.
iii. Functionality required.
Cost
PHP, MySQL server, PostgreSQL server, Apache Server and Linux OS all are open source and are free with their upgrades. Therefore, there is no licensing cost PHP even an additional standby server can be maintained as a backup or can run multiple servers to balance the load.
Further, LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL and PHP) is very much popular among hosting companies and its popularity result in a lower monthly hosting cost compared to windows hosting.
ASP.net and IIS are free if you buy Windows OS. Otherwise, there is an additional licensing cost for a Microsoft Windows Server, MSSQL server and for future upgrades too. So it can be even more expensive if the site becomes famous and needs to run on the multiple servers to balance the load, standby or server clustering etc.
Support and Resources
Since LAMP is an open source, there are lots of dedicated and friendly developers across the globe that continuously make enhancement and upgrades and provide support to open source community. Hence, PHP and LAMP resources are easily available for any support.
ASP.net depends on the developers who work at Microsoft for making improvements and updates. So, the contributors are in very less number to solve the ASP.net challenges.
Time & Deploy
It requires a heavy amount of code to complete any complex features and functionality with ASP.net compared to PHP, which adds more time in the development.
Additionally, PHP is interpreted at the server, so when modifying any functionality, can be reviewed without any additional steps. On the other hand, ASP.net requires compiling every time the code changed. Hence in result it is time-consuming when modifying your own code.
Platform
PHP runs on any platform e.g. Linux, UNIX, Mac OSX, and Windows hence it is platform independent. While, ASP.net is platform dependent since it only runs on Windows platform.
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