sureshp Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 Dear ALL, I am thinking about developing a Social Networking website and I am very much concentrating on speed and efficiency. My friends are saying that Python will be faster than PHP. But, I saw most of the social networking websites are built in PHP, Ruby On Rails. For example, Youtube, MySpace,... are built in PHP. What do you think? Kindly suggest me the best option which will lead to build a Social Network website with better loading speed. Thanks in Advance ! Regards, Suresh P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waynewex Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 PHP. Facebook is built in PHP. MySpace in PHP. Bebo in Java. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy17 Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 You can't go wrong with PHP, since a lot of the really big sites are using it and they manage just fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sureshp Posted October 4, 2008 Author Share Posted October 4, 2008 thanks guys. How can we improve the speed with php? I think "speed is the king" for social networking website. I see that Rediff / Yahoo websites are loading very faster. how can they achieved it? is there any possibility to achieve it with PHP? Thanks, Suresh P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 You can use an opcode cache like APC. You should first optimize your code and queries to the database though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waynewex Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 1: As Daniel said, optimise your queries. Make sure nothing is in a loop etc. 2: Test your security. Remember that users will have a lot of points to attack from. 3: Try other social networks and make sure that you site follows the same pattern of usability. 4: MAKE IT EASY for people to use. (Most important). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.josh Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 yay another "which language is better for <insert something here>" thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhcrusoe Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 Use the language you're most comfortable with, can maintain forward, is forward-compatible, and supports simple plugin of extras produced by others. For that reason, I'd personally choose to avoid something like Ruby on Rails (I wasn't an expert with it, and produced http://www.projectkir.org in it, and then had a hard time maintaining!) and have since launched other sites (Boolify.org, Codekindness.org) in PHP; these are languages I know, I'm comfortable with, know will be around for a long time to come, can be optimized, and support simple integration with other 3rd party plugins/apps/etc. So, in the end, nothing is "better"/"worse", but perhaps you're more able to support a particular language... --Dave / Codekindness.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkWater Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 I'm pretty sure MySpace uses ColdFusion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonLewis Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 Yes I believe MySpace does use ColdFusion, since it's pages end with .cfm which is the ColdFusion Template extension. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 http://www.myspace.com/default.aspx That's weird.... I always thought they used ASP. Oh that's just strange... http://www.myspace.com/default.cfm Guess they use Coldfusion. Or they just like confusing us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Little Guy Posted October 6, 2008 Share Posted October 6, 2008 Speed / efficiency I feel is based on 2 things: 1. Your Server (speed) 2. optimized code (efficiency) If programmed correctly, PHP can be faster than Python, ASP, CodFusion, etc. and vise versa. Just like saying "A language is only as secure as its programmer", has a similar saying "A language is only as efficient as its programmer" A fast server will also make your coding language faster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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