Thanks, that makes much more sense. I agree that webforms is bad. I worked on the framework side of things before ASP.NET MVC was an option and needing to roll

Thanks, that makes much more sense. I agree that webforms is bad. I worked on the framework side of things before ASP.NET MVC was an option and needing to roll our own was where most of my experience scaling .NET systems has come from. In spite of that, .NET was a good choice for other reasons and was fun to build and scale.