Php running slowly on a windows server

October 31st, 2009, 7:03 am

I have been “volunteered” for updating a school website. I am trying to reduce the amount of updating work I have to do by allowing the school staff (and children) to update the content themselves. In the past I have written a php script to authenticate a username and password and allow a user update their content by typing it into a textarea on a web page. It is saved in a text file and displayed on the users page with a php include. This has worked well on a Linux server (with php 5). The school site is hosted on a windows server (with php 4) and is giving problems. It works but is slow and keeps timing out.
If I rewrote the whole thing in asp would it run faster?
Or has anyone got any other suggestions ?