In reviewing literature about what's better - pHp v. ASP - an argument
I always read against ASP.NET is the hosting/serving. It states that
licensing fees, among other things - mean the server or hosting for
ASP.NET is more expensive.

Here's the question, and I assume I know the answer: when people refer
to ASP.NET hosting being more expensive, they are refering to a
company's own server, as opposed to using another company's - such as
godaddy.com. Correct?

Feel free to set my thinking about this as straight as it needs to be.

False:

ASP.NET and PHP are two different server technologies.  PHP is
commonly used on Linux servers while ASP.NET is commonly used on
Windows Servers.

ASP and PHP are only two different programming languages that are
dynamic scripting languages. You can find more about php at
(http://php.net) and ASP.NET at
(http://asp.net/Default.aspx?tabindex=0&tabid=1). No matter which
server you use, a company's or a hosting provider's, you will use
either ASP.NET whice you have to buy from Microsoft or PHP which is a
free open source language.  I hope this answers your question.  please
contact me if you have any more questions.  Thanks.

hi odulsmin,

I browsed and studied godaddy.com and found that they charge the same
price for both the linux and windows server. If you purchase the plans
from them you will not have any cost advantage of using linux servers.

They have simplified the plans the make the subscribers/buy easier.

If you go and visit http://www.squarebrothers.com you can get the
answer, where they offer 25MB space per year for linux servers and 10
MB space per year for windows server for the same charge/amount.

PHP can be used in both the servers whereas the asp.net can be used
only in windows. (i have heard of emulators which may or may not
support asp.net in linux)