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ASP Hosting Simplified
SP stands for Active program first and foremost,
Server Pages. It is a before delivering any HTML info
technology that enables to the browser. This is why you
users to design and creative cannot simply run ASP websites
interactive pages for their with just any hosting company.
websites, using something called The hosting company you choose
"server-side scripting". What do must have servers that support
we mean by interactive? Forms, ASP, or else the ASP scripts you
in-site search engines, blogs, use will be rendered useless.
user forums, newsletters,
calendars, WhoIs searches, When examining web hosting
web-based email, polls, surveys, companies to find one that
hit counters and more. supports ASP, you must look
specifically for ASP support. Do
Best of all, with ASP, no longer not simply assume that because a
do webmasters have to concern hosting company supports "most
themselves with what browser a web-based scripts, from CGI to
visitor to their site is using. Perl" that it supports ASP. If it
With ASP hosting, your website doesn't say so in an obvious
will appear identically on all place on the sales site, go to
computers, on all browsers, a the hosting company's FAQ and
claim that HTML simply cannot look for ASP. And since most FAQs
make. are searchable, this shouldn't be
difficult to do. If you're really
Anytime a browser requests a enamored with a particular
webpage that has the .asp hosting company (or their current
extension where the more familiar promotion) but can find no
.htm or .html would be, the information on ASP support,
hosting provider's web server consider contacting them via
interprets any ASP scripts in the email, telephone, or web chat to
find out. It's possible that they Incidentally, Windows ME and
do support ASP and just have a Windows XP Home Edition are
lousy sales site (which may be an lacking in support for ASP
indicator of an altogether scripts. But we're willing to bet
different sort). the forthcoming Windows Vista
probably does.
Microsoft brought ASP to the
world, and as such provides the For those webmasters on a PC that
platform - Windows - on which ASP isn't Windows-based, all hope is
generally works best. In order to not lost. Sun Microsystems has
play around with ASP scripts on developed a program called
your web pages, you'll have to Chili!Soft ASP that allows other
download and install onto your servers -- such as Red Hat,
system an ASP server, like Apache, and Secure Server -- and
Microsoft's Internet Information other operating systems -- such
Services (IIS) or Microsoft's as Linux, Solaris, and AIX -- to
Personal Web Server (PWS) -- one support ASP hosting.
or both of which is included with
most Windows packages for no Writing and using ASP scripts is
extra charge. If you use Windows easy too -- at least it's no
on your machine and have never harder than HTML, with all
encountered IIS or PWS, chances commands occurring between ""
are it's because you have to instead of "". Not so big a
"Add" the program to your hard difference, is there? And you can
drive using the Windows software find an abundance of software
CD-ROM or through your control tools all over the web (many for
panel, since it's often not free) that helps even the
included as part of the "Basic greenest novice create
Install". interactive web pages rife with
ASP.
course, is only to your advantage
ASP is such a versatile language as you can comparison shop around
that more and more hosting for the best ASP hosting
companies are finding themselves offerings right alongside all the
compelled to add ASP support to other features you're looking
their hosting packages just to for.
remain competitive. This, of
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