Question
I am creating a crowdfunding platform with a thousands of pages connected with a database. I am outsourcing it to web devs.
Option 1: Use Ruby on Rails, with contractors from India (freelancer websites)
Option 2: Use node.js or Django with contractors who are friends of friends
Option 3: Build it on Wordpress or PHP and find people to do it
Price quotations received is about the same. Which language is good for scalability (lots of pages), has a big community (for support) and will be good to build a startup (building a team in the future)?
Any thoughts?
Answer
PHP would probably give you the biggest pool of available developers which will help keep the cost down. If you pair that with a modern compiled framework like phalconphp.com and stay with php version 5.5 with its opcode and memory optimizations, you'll be able to run your site in low end ec2 instances for a long time.
