What is ASP Hosting?
With an ASP site, you can build an interactive website whose design is based on 'server-side scripting'. An ASP site, which stands for 'Active Server Pages', is ideal for blogs, in-house search engines, registration forms, newsletters, surveys, and much more. Indeed, the incredible functionality of ASP has opened up doors and windows for the imagination of web designers.
The biggest advantage of an ASP site is how a browser sees your site. When you design an HTML web page with Frontpage or Dreamweaver on a Windows computer, for example, it may all look perfectly beautiful on your desktop, but not everyone will see your page as you do. It can look completely different in different browsers.
An ASP site will look identical on all browsers and all computers.
For ASP sites to run efficiently, though, the servers of your web hosting provider must support ASP, which is not always so. And there are many who make the mistake of accepting that if your web host supports 'web-based scripts', then ASP will not be a problem. CGI or Perl may work fine with such hosts, but make sure your web host clearly mentions ASP as a supported script.
With more and more webmasters opting for ASP, web hosting packages that support ASP are becoming an imperative selling-point for web hosts who want to stay competitive.
ASP is a simple language. Once you get the grasp of it, it will actually not be that much harder than HTML. The principle difference is the use of % instead of HTML's < or > to hold commands.
ASP is originally a Windows-based language. But only Windows Vista has proven to be the first Windows operating system with the most reliable support for ASP scripts to date.
If you run Linux on your computer, you can also work with ASP, thanks to Sun Microsystems who has developed support for ASP scripts for non-Windows operating systems, and progressively support is getting stronger.
Given the advances of the last few years, even a novice can now quite easily set up an ASP-based website with the help of many free tools available throughout the web.
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