[thelist] Re: thelist digest, Vol 1 #1470 - 31 msgs

[Eveline Vanhemel]

Thank you guys, all the suggestions were very valuable to me. This is the
digest I made for myself:

1) Since I found out now, that I can go either way in terms of adaptability
to the two server types, I decided that I would take the price tag into
account.
2) In Belgium you pay the same price for hosting at an ISP for an ASP or a
CF driven site (about $250 a year without the database, the same amount for
the database). Only PHP is not mentioned in their specifications. So I need
to find out immediately what it is going to cost. But since it is not
mentioned, I make the presumption it is probably free...
3) So to sum it up: for an ASP or CF driven site, we pay $500 a year (which
we already do for the moment) and for PHP it will probably be $250. So I
think I won't have much trouble convincing my employer to go for PHP...;-)
4) There was also the remark that if you know ASP already, it is not so hard
to change to PHP.

All this taken into consideration, I think PHP will be my best bet... IF
another question of mine is answered positively: at the moment I use a
simple Access database, is it possible to migrate to MySQL from an Access
database?

TIA

Eveline
eveline_vanhemel at pi.be

> Message: 15
> From: "Eveline Vanhemel" <eveline_vanhemel at pi.be>
> To: "EVolt MailingList" <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 22:16:05 +0200
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> Subject: [thelist] Re: ColdFusion and PhP
> Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have a question sidely related to this discussion. At the moment I am
> finalizing a site with db connection, running on a NT Server and using
ASP.
> The site is running on a server at al local ISP here in Belgium. We have
an
> agreement with them to keep the site with them for 1 year, but we already
> decided that when this year is over we will change the ISP or even go for
> hosting it ourselves. Since up till now, I only worked with ASP, it was
also
> the only option we had.
>
> A few days ago, I had a conversation with my employer and we both agreed
> that by the end of this year, we would change from NT to UNIX. This means
I
> am going to have to do quite some studying the next months but I think
that
> in the end I won't regret it. So, now comes the question about CF and PHP.
>
> What I would like to do, is while studying, changing the site along with
it,
> but since the site is still running on NT, I would like to know, which
> direction is the easiest way to take?
>
> The best solution would be if I could write the code now to run on NT but
if
> we change next year to the UNIX platform, it has to be possible to move
the
> site with as less as possible adaptations. So, with that in mind, what
> should I choose? CF or PHP?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Eveline
> eveline_vanhemel at pi.be
>