Is building a social network website in ASP a bad mistake?

i have a friend who was initially building a website in java but his developers had problems, wasted a lot of his time and money and now they are building the website in .ASP.





Is this a disadvantage for a social networking type of website if using .asp language, how about future expandablity or adaptation to i.e. applications





how about the general futureprooff of the website or the speed of the uploads/downloads of the website etc.





can anyone advice please?Is building a social network website in ASP a bad mistake?
There's nothing specific about ASP or PHP technically that would cause problems or result in future scalability issues. Any server-side scripting language would be just as capable of building a social networking website if done right. It's not like the platform used has any bearing on transfer speeds.





However the question I would be more inclined to ask is, do you really want to trust these particular developers to do it, considering they chose a technology to use and wasted so much time and money only to fail with it?Is building a social network website in ASP a bad mistake?
It's not what you code it with, it's how you code it. Just simply writing the VBScript into the page is dangerous, and is completely lazy to boot. Let's say that your actual homepage contained just the HTML HEAD and BODY tags, and that all of the actual work was printed to the document using a VBScript, then you'd be a lot safer.





In addition using key tag elements such as id or name makes things safer. Defining HTML classes that can be accessed via script of CSS is better than simply coding EVERYTHING into the HTML. The more you hide the better. Like I said before, it's not what you program it with, it's how you program it.





Also, here's another interesting thought, assign keys to each anchor using a simple encryption method right after the digital handshake. Just a few ideas.
Nothing wrong with ASP, appart from the fact that it is a Microsoft product!


This means you depend on the whims of BG, have to pay licences on a regular basis, pay for upgrades, and pay for add-ons, including for your database... and deal with bugs that will never be resolved...


You'll be better off setting for a LAMP server, and write the lot in Php: MUCH, MUCH, MUCH CHEAPER!