RE: Advice Sought for Web Programming
March 29, 2015 at 10:01 am
(This post was last modified: March 29, 2015 at 10:09 am by bennyboy.)
(March 28, 2015 at 9:54 am)AtlasS2 Wrote: Guys there are cheap ASP.NET servers too ; check this list :
https://besthostingsearch.net/best-asp-net-hosting/
using one of the sites in the list ; it only costs about 100 $ annually.
it's only expensive if you demanded an unlimited storage (which is ; for a junior/indie developer is totally not needed), along with extra expensive security procedures which are also needed only by companies & projects of high value.
bennyboy I like your opinion.
Hmmmm. . .
I might have to start shopping for a new provider. My ASP hosting costs have been at like $30/month for about the past 3 years, with only a couple Gb of ram. Given these new prices, and that Microsoft is providing a complete framework for free at http://www.asp.net/downloads , I'd even more strongly recommend ASP over PHP.
My beef with PHP is probably why a lot of people like it: open frameworks with a lot of amateur-designed libraries. To me, trying to figure out how to make this version of this library and the other version of that library work together feels less like freedom and more like an extra level of problem solving. I suppose one man's "proprietary" is another man's peace of mind, but I very much LIKE the fact that the designer, the programming language, and the framework are all made by the same people, and are all specifically designed to evolve together.
I don't want to discourage AFTT47, though. I've worked with PHP and it works fine. My own opinion is once you've worked with a few different frameworks and languages, you end up with a kind of meta-knowledge that lets you move to new technologies whenever you want to, and get new projects up and running on whatever tools you need to use. I suppose in the end, AFTT47 should try developing in BOTH frameworks, and learn what each is strong/weak at, and which works best with his way of doing things.
