ASP.net vs PHP (What to choose)
<p>I have been assigned a task to develop a new web application. Its a kind of social web applications, for the sake of understanding you can say its similar to facebook. Now before start developing such huge application i have few questions to ask:</p>

<ul>
<li>First, Does the tool and programing language
   affects the performance of web
   application?</li>
</ul>

<p>e.g I made two web pages both have same contents over it, the only difference is that one page is made in ASP.net(with C#) and other is made in PHP, now which page opens more fast at user end?
The only purpose of asking this question is that i want to choose one language which is more faster from end user prospective</p>

<ul>
<li>Same is the case with database do i
need to choose some specific database
or i can use any database of my choice,
currently i am considering:</li>
</ul>

<p>1.MS SQL Server<br>
2.MY SQL and<br>
3.Postgres</p>
