I'm a .Net developer and I know how to create web API in .Net.
Now I'm developing my own mobile apps and need to use web API for my app to get/set data. I'm only doing it for my own personal interest and not earning any bucks from it.
But developing web API in .Net platform, as I know, is extremely expensive when I need to get a window server platform to deploy my web API solution.
My friend suggested me to use open source site to create/deploy web API which is much much more cheaper compare to .Net platform.
Would like to ask for anyone here if you came across or heard of such situation, what is the best approach or suggestion for my case?
What I had in mind right now is to learn some PHP (or some other open source language, not sure yet) to create web API and then look for open source platform to get my web API live.
Would appreciate for some sharing from you guys.
Suggestion for Web API sites for personal usage