Originally Posted by Village Idiot

A "great" tool would be something that is not a scripting language. PHP is a slow messy scripting language that is hacked together by amateurs. High traffic sites need the fastest processes possible, the most noticeable way to do this is to run pre-compiled programs because they are already in machine code. C or C++ are great (if not the best when programmed well) tools for really high traffic sites, but ASP.NET is also a very capable tool that is easier to learn.

What you have quoted was my entire post at the time you quoted it (I edited it soon after posting)