Nobody really gives a damn what you built your site in (why I chose asp.net).
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Re: Nobody really gives a damn what you built your site in (why I chose asp.net).
#2The people who come along later to scale to those millions of users your site attracted might.
Re: Nobody really gives a damn what you built your site in (why I chose asp.net).
#3The people who come along later to scale to those millions of users your site attracted might.
Is there any (standard) technology stack that has proven to be unscalable?
Re: Nobody really gives a damn what you built your site in (why I chose asp.net).
#4The people who come along later to scale to those millions of users your site attracted might.
This is what I don't get. ASP.NET scales pretty well as Joel opines. Why do people think .NET is bad just because it feels enterprise-y?
Re: Nobody really gives a damn what you built your site in (why I chose asp.net).
#5I disagree. For starters, I care what I build my site in. I'd have a lot more fun using say python or (if I'm lucky) lisp or Haskell than I would using PHP. And more fun = easier.
Secondly, developers who might join your company are going to care. Developers are more than the technologies on their resumes. Good ones can learn new technologies quickly. And they might even be happier learning something new.
This view is typical of business people. There isn't anything wrong with that, and it's necessary to a certain degree. But as he scales up, I hope that he can find someone who can help him make a more informed technical decision.
(And for the record, this isn't necessarily targeted at ASP.NET. I can think of worse technologies to work with)
Re: Nobody really gives a damn what you built your site in (why I chose asp.net).
#6As a newbie, you are as likely to write shit asp.net code as you are any other code.
Re: Nobody really gives a damn what you built your site in (why I chose asp.net).
#7The people who come along later to scale to those millions of users your site attracted might.
You almost always have to rewrite your whole system anyway to scale to millions of users. It doesn't matter whether it's PHP, Python, C++, or ASP.NET; it'll have to be rewritten.
The real problem is the flip-side of something that the OP mentioned as an advantage: ASP.NET coders tend to be cheaper, less experienced, and hence less likely to know about some critical detail that'll boost adoption, whether it's usability or latency or security. As someone relatively inexperienced himself, the OP can't know what those things are, but it's highly likely that one of them will bite him.
In other words, it's correlation, not causation. ASP.NET won't make your site suck. However, ASP.NET biases your talent pool towards developers who suck, and that will make your site suck.
Re: Nobody really gives a damn what you built your site in (why I chose asp.net).
#8And people do give a damn about somebody who rants and curses in his blog post.
Re: Nobody really gives a damn what you built your site in (why I chose asp.net).
#9I'm doing the same. I'll give a shout out to appharbor. They have made it insanely easy and cheap(as in free) to deploy a .net app.
...and here is a little secret that they may or may not want you to know...if you don't have the MS tools, it doesn't really matter. You don't even have to have windows. They build the code for you. You could used notepad to write an ASP.net app on their platform. Push. Test. Repeat.
Re: Nobody really gives a damn what you built your site in (why I chose asp.net).
#10The people who come along later to scale to those millions of users your site attracted might.
This is what I don't get. ASP.NET scales pretty well as Joel opines. Why do people think .NET is bad just because it feels enterprise-y? More: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWHfY_lvKIQ
It scales well but the pool of people with the experience and inclination to run a major Internet site using .NET is small and more importantly, getting smaller. Nobody graduating with a CS degree in the States right now is excited to work with MS - it just isn't sexy right now.
Sexy isn't everything, but it's not nothing either.