October 28, 200916 yr Hi, What language would be best to build a job website? (I don't mean the CSS stuff - I mean the other stuff (the back end, if that's the right terminology). And would it depend on whether it's a job website like Elance, where it's mainly freelance, or a regular job website like Monster? As I understand, the options are ASP or PHP or possibly Java or ColdFusion Somebody has told me that PHP would be good. But another person has said that high-usership sites or sites that are database based would be better in ASP. I've looked at different sites and found that lots are in ASP, but some are in PHP: (I don't know a lot about programming and I'm simply looking in the url to find the words PHP or ASP - if that's the right way to go about it. I'm not sure if that means the whole site is built in that language.) Job sites that I think are in PHP: Elance.com Odesk.com Sites that I think are in ASP: Monster.com Guru.com IrishJobs.ie Nixers.com RentACoder.com RecruitIreland.com ColdFusion: DesignQuote.net I found more sites in ASP than PHP, but then some big sites like Facebook are in PHP as far as I can see. So what would be the relative merits of the different languages for a job website? And would it depend on whether it was an Elance-like site or a Monster-like site? Thanks.
October 28, 200916 yr What language would be best to build a job website? As I understand, the options are ASP or PHP or possibly Java or ColdFusion ASP or PHP are the obvious ones, Java no, CF probably ok but may have higher development and maintenance costs. Somebody has told me that PHP would be good. But another person has said that high-usership sites or sites that are database based would be better in ASP. There is really no advantage to using either, both are more than capable of handling high traffic sites. It's got more do to with having well balanced and reliable servers and infrastructure to cope with the traffic.
October 28, 200916 yr ASP or PHP are the obvious ones, Java no Java EE/Web is great when you need a platform with container-managed features like persistence, security and a whole host of APIs and libraries for a wide variety of tasks. It also has performance optimisations out-of-the-box which usually only come with extra setup and/or cost with PHP. Having said that, Java is going to be overkill for the kind of simple CRUD site you require. There is really no advantage to using either I'd recommend basing your decision on what hosting platform you want to use: if it's Linux, PHP is going to be easier to manage; if it's Windows, ASP(.NET) is the way to go.
October 28, 200916 yr Author Thanks BlueDreamer and Connetu. about the hosting platform - that leads me to ask which hosting platform would be better..?
October 29, 200916 yr I would recommend ASP.NET with C# as its more portable and the code is decoupled from the markup. It also ties in really well with Silverlight in case your interested in adding any nice RIA type features. The only down sides are: * Windows servers are a bit more expensive to hire * .NET is a beast with a big learning curve
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