Should Server-side scripting or client side scripting for high volume websites?
Javascript is client based and although it’s useful for AJAX and relies on the browser to be executed the use of Javascript makes the website and it’s developer depend on the client’s system (an unknown) to determine website performance. The Post Hypertext Processor (PHP) is a server side language programmed initially as a bunch of CGI scripts complied in C/C++, as such it’s a very efficient language.(Echo3) [i] The primary platform for web-development with PHP Is LAMP (Linux, Apache, PHP and MySQL);(Dougherty) [ii] (NetCraft) [iii] As with any programming language and website more than just the language must be considered to determine overall system performance with respect to the website expierence. An example of this is if we have the world most powerful supercomputer but only a dial-up connection no one will host web-sites on said computer. There are far more factors in performance than just the language; how many users are there? How much Bandwidth is there? What’s the loca...