Online game using .net technologies

Question

I am new in game development, but I'm thinking about creating online browser game on asp.net mvc3 using entity framework for ORM data mapping and SQL Server 2008 DB for data data storage. I would like to hear your thoughts about this. What advantages and disadvantages of this approach. Why is it worse than using classic LAMP.

Answer 1

first of all costs. As I assume you are paying for the licences, second is speed(linux is faster than windows), third portability and safety (apache is more secure than IIS and also faster) and apache/mysql/php can run on windows while IIS and will not work on something else. Overall more Lamp hosters than Windows hosters as far as I know. Then PHP is faster than ASP (execution speed and development speed), cheaper to develop, much more flexible and lighter(even if you use a framework like symphony or Zend). examples: Facebook works with php, Yahoo works with PHP, IBM is befriending PHP . MySQL is fast and easy to maintain. Microsoft Technology is for corporations (As my personal opinion on their technology, I rather keep it to my self, raise your hands IE6 friends). If you are going for PHP or MySql though their flexibility can be tricky, as you can do a lot of things, if you do not master your school theory you might end up with a monster.