About ASP Web Hosting
ASP, which stands for Active Server Pages, is a technology that uses what's called
"server-side scripting" to allow you to create imaginative, interactive web
pages. ASP hosting make it possible for your website to appear just as you intend it to
appear on any visitor's computer regardless of the browser they are using. HTML,
unfortunately, does not provide you that same sort of certainty.When your browser requests any web page with the extension .asp at the
end instead of the more familiar .htm, the hosting company's server knows to interpret all
asp scripts right then and there, prior to sending any HTML information to your browser.
This makes the ASP hosting company's server crucial to you (and your site visitors)
being able to view the web pages properly. To use asp scripting on your own website, you
would need to make sure the host you select is an ASP webhosting company, meaning they
support ASP scripting. Otherwise, you simply can't use ASP on your site.
And keep in mind, just because your host runs CGI and Pearl scripts, for example,
it's no guarantee that they also provide ASP hosting. To check whether your web host is
indeed an ASP hosting company, check their FAQ for information on ASP hosting. If you find
none, then email or call them to find out.
As ASP hosting was introduced to the world by Microsoft, it
typically works best on Windows computers, particularly those running newer versions of
the Windows operating system. Before you can experiment with using ASP on any of your web
pages, you must first download and install an ASP server on your system, such as the more
prominent one - Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS). Fortunately, this server
or Microsoft Personal Web Server (PWS) comes free as part of the Windows package. Windows
webhosting mostly includes SQL hosting and ASP.net
You may have to "Add" the program to your system through the software CD
or your control panel, as it may not have been included as part of the basic install
procedure.
Sadly, Windows ME and Windows XP Home Edition do not support ASP scripting.
If you don't use a Windows operating system (or simply use a
different server), ASP hosting still may be available to you. A product named Chili!Soft
ASP, put out by Sun Microsystems and available at www.chilisoft.com, supports ASP on many
other web servers such as Red Hat, Secure Server, and Apache, using such alternate
operating systems as Linux, AIX, and Solaris.
Again, you must have IIS, PWS, Chili!Soft, or some other ASP-enabled server
installed on your system in order to make ASP web pages.
ASP scripting is a language all its own, and though there are
many tools online, many of them free, for aiding you in creating ASP-rich websites, you
will also have to learn the basics of the language yourself. Otherwise, how could you
troubleshoot the occasional, inevitable, error? Learning ASP is not hard. Rest assured, if
you could learn HTML (to write all commands between "<" and ">",
for example), you can learn ASP too (and put all commands now between "<%"
and "%>"). See? Not that different.
Lucky for us, the web is saturated with free tools for use on
ASP websites: forums, mailing lists, guest books, in-site search engines, forms, blogs,
polls, hit counters, web-based email, and WhoIs searches (for looking up potential domain
names).
If you're willing to take the little bit of time it requires to learn the basics of
ASP scripting, you open the doors to a boundless world of exciting possibilities to enrich
the experiences of your site's visitors and keep them coming back again and again., you just need the right ASP WebHosting package.
Why take our recommendation?
Our group of web developers and business owners have been working on the Web and dealing
with web hosting companies for over 4 years. All selections support ASP.net. We want to
help others avoid making a costly mistake choosing the wrong web hosting. We test
companies on the following criteria: cost, reliability (uptime), customer support, free
software, and more.
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