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Asked: 2026-05-12T05:59:37+00:00

I am a .Net / SQL Server developer via my daytime job, and on

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I am a .Net / SQL Server developer via my daytime job, and on the side I do some objective C development for the iPhone. I would like to develop a web service and since dreamhost supports mySql, python, ruby on rails and PHP5, I would like to create it using one of those languages. If you had no experience in either python, Ruby on Rails or PHP, which would you go with and why? The service basically just takes a request and talks to a MySql database.

Note: Was planning on using the SOAP protocol.. though I am open to suggestions since I have a clean slate with these languages.

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    Ruby-on-rails, Python and PHP would all be excellent choices for developing a web service in. All the languages are capable (with of course Ruby being the language that Ruby on Rails is written in), have strong frameworks if that is your fancy (Django being a good python example, and something like Drupal or CakePHP being good PHP examples) and can play nicely with MySql.

    I’d say that it would depend mostly on your past experience and what you’d be the most comfortable with. Assuming that you’re developing C# on .NET and have experience with Objective-C PHP may be a good choice because it is most certainly from the C family of languages. So the syntax might be more familiar and a bit easier to deal with.

    I’m a PHP developer so I’ll give you that slant and let more knowledgeable developers with the others give theirs as well. PHP is tightly integrated with Apache, which can make some of the more mundane tasks that you’d have to handle with the others a bit more trivial (though when working with a framework those are usually removed). The PHP documentation is second to none and is a great resource for getting up and going easily. It has decent speed and there are good caching mechanisms out there to get more performance out of it. I know that getting up and running with PHP on Dreamhost is trivial. I haven’t done it in the other instances although it wouldn’t surprise me if those were just as easy as well.

    I’d suggest digging a bit more into the documentation and frameworks for each language to find out what suits you best.

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