Thursday, March 27, 2008

Web Hosting Technology: PHP, MySQL and ASP.NET

It is a daunting task to choose between LINUX web hosting and Windows web hosting. You need to know the language of your website, before you can determine the platform or type of server you need.

For a simple HTML website or an ecommerce site created with any other programming database feature created in PHP-MySQL, Linux web hosting is the best. If your site is developed with ASP or ASP.NET, then you must be on a Windows server.

All these terms may seem to be technical and complicated but you can understand them by reading on.

ASP.NET web hosting
This is a division of Microsoft’s .NET platform and a successor of Active Server Pages technology. ASP.NET implies a set of web application development technologies that can be used by programmers for building dynamic website applications and XML web services.

Web application creation becomes much simpler as ASP.NET cuts down on the number of codes and provides flexibility to the choice of language by supporting multiple .NET languages. The pages are easy to write and maintain. This type of web hosting is faster and can face a large number of users with consistent performance.

PHP web hosting
It is a reflective programming language or a general purpose server-side scripting language used for web development, i.e., creating dynamic and interactive websites. It can be planted in HTML code and is frequently used with APACHE on various operating systems.

Basically, PHP acts as a filter that takes inputs from a stream or files containing text and PHP instructions and displays a different stream of data.

MySQL web hosting
It is a multi-user, multithreaded computer language designed for management and retrieval of data, control management of database object access and database scheme creation and modification. MySQL is popular for web application, open-source bug tracking tools and also acts as the database component of WAMP, MAMP and LAMP.

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