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There is a difference between having an idea for a single site that you want to truly breakout from the pack and those that you see as low maintenance, low risk, yet still dependable revenue generators. If you are looking to build a breakout site the choice of development language is pretty much up to you and your team, .NET, PHP, RoR, they all have their pros and cons and you can make a case for any of them. But if you are looking to establish many small streams of revenue spread out over different markets and monetization schemes YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE PHP. Believe me I hated coming to this realization, I’ve spent the last 6 years as a .NET developer, I love the scalability, that it’s strongly typed, and the development environment is world class, but when you are trying to scale a niche operation the sheer breadth of open source scripts that you can leverage that are all built in PHP dwarf every other development language. Wordpress for blogs, mcjiffy for ePN or domaining,  OpenX for ad serving, and the list goes on, 95% of all code you need to build any type of niche site is available via an Open Source PHP script.

The sooner you learn PHP and to a lesser extent MySQL/Apache the less reliant you will be on other support entities to get your next endeavour going. I just purchased an arcade script ditribution site, 2goware.com, and I am at the mercy of the current owner’s support staff to transfer the code and get it all working on my dreamhost.com (af) account since I am not nearly as strong with PHP as I am in .NET. If you aren’t prepared to learn at least a modicrum of PHP so you can either do things yourself or outsource in an itelligent manner what you can’t this IS NOT the business for you.

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