Benchmarking Mono ASP.Net vs. PHP – a slight...

We promised some numbers, but I've run into a snag that's slowed down my testing. Originally when we first started toying with the idea of pitting Mono + ASP.Net against PHP, I wrote a quick PHP script that would just make a cheap fopen call to whatever URL you wanted to test, however many times you wanted to hit it. This isn't really load-testing, it's more like a basic timer, and not a very accurate...

First impessions of mono

I've never really been much of an open source guy, but damn if I'm not ecstatic about mono. I've been following the project for a while and loved the concept, so when it came time to re-write this web project I'm working on (originally written in PHP) I though it's the perfect opportunity. Right now we've got mono 1.2.6 running on an ancient machine with CentOS 4.4, and mono itself seems...