ASP v PHP
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Speaking as a developer PHP will give you much more flexibility at a cheaper price. Most hosting services support PHP and there's a wealth of production-level code examples available for free. Most blogging software is actually written in PHP. So there you go.
PHP runs best on Unix platforms while ASP will lock you into Microsoft products (if not immediately then over time). When deciding on Unix vs. Windows don't listen to the peanut gallery. Instead listen to Google, Yahoo, Amazon, etc. When it comes to servers the biggest companies with the most users feel more comfortable running Unix than Windows.
So Unix servers (or Linux, obviously) are the way to go. And PHP and Unix are good friends. Having said that I'd even go a step further and say you can do better than PHP. Develop in Ruby on Rails instead. Ruby is an elegant object-oriented language that has more in common with Smalltalk than C. Rails is a web framework built in Ruby. You can find out more about RoR and the big companies that are using it at : http://rubyonrails.org/