[PHPLIB] Re: [PHPLIB-DEV] php or asp From: Kristian Koehntopp (kris <email protected>)
Date: 04/19/00

In netuse.lists.phplib you write:
>My question is if a proffessional web-site can be made in php
>with mySQL?

No, of course not. PHP is a toy, and only small joke sites can
be made with it. We are only here on this list and the english
language PHP list to rip off unsuspecting and insecure newbies
like you who know nothing about web design and fall for such a
hackers tool that has been written by an ex-student to publish
his vitae. What do you expect from us?

>The concerns I have are:
>Speed, load-tolerance, power (asp vs. php), stability and so
>on...

The respected german computer magazine c't had checked 100 major
german sites for 30 days every 10 minutes and recorded their
outages. When a monitored site failed they tried to reach the
next hop before that site. If that hop was reachable, but the
main site wasn't, they counted that as an outage.

According to c't, NT based sites failed five times more often
than Unix based sites and their outages where 4-5 times longer
in the average than the outages of Unix based sites. c't also
identified major stability problems in distributed installations
- as soon as you work with load distribution or failover
solutions you introduce so much complexity into your system that
your failure rate actually increases.

For reference installations see main PHP website. It has a list
of PHP based projects online, some of them major or very major.
See http://www.php.net/ for details.

Kristian

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