simple question i think

[size_t]

my question is i want to make a site like flickr or myspace
it needs to handle users and logins and user uploads.
so i was looking into webhosting or windows hosting what would be better in my situation?
i assume i will need a database i do know access and c ,VB.net and css
but havent fiddled with asp
any help is much appreciated...
thx
cj

[size_t]

i guess its not an easy question

[danwmr]

Hi,

Apache claim to dominate 70% of the market, and hosting (in my experience) is generally cheaper on Unix than it is for Windows.

There are a multitude of options for development. LAMP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAMP_%28software_bundle%29) is popular (Linux, Apache (http://httpd.apache.org), MySQL (http://www.mysql.org) and PHP (http://www.php.net)), and many hosting providers come not only with reasonably up-to-date installations of all of the above, but also with pre-packaged applications such as bulletin boards and shopping carts that you can just plug in.

There are versions of PHP and MySQL that run on a Windows platform. I'd suggest looking at SQL Server or MySQL rather than MS Access as the latter isn't really considered a database - and certainly wouldn't be up to the task if your site became as popular as those you listed.

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