Social networking sites using ASP.NET or PHP

Question

I am familiar with both ASP.NET and PHP and now want to develop a social networking website. Before start development, I have been browsing some articles / forums and etc to find out which technology is suitable to develop and handle much traffic in future.

Some people prefer PHP for the development. Is this only because of:

• open source
• reduced hosting costs
• easy for development

Or does it (along with Apache) provide any performance improvement in heavy load times?

Answer 1

If I had the choice I would use .net, simply because I find it easier to work with.

Also I find I can do the complicated in .net far easier than with php. But I guess it is personal choice.

Answer 2

How do you plan to host your site? If you are using a hosting provider you may want to see if they provide .NET (Windows) hosting. Linux hosting is typically less expensive than Windows hosting.

Answer 3

PHP is the best choice! "open source" and "easy for development" are two Important reasons!