ASP Web Hosting

ASP Web Hosting?
ASP is a server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language. ASP scripts are server-side meaning they execute on the web server, not within the browser on your local machine. ASP is cross-platform, which means that ASP scripts can run on many different web servers and operating systems, primarily Windows/IIS and Unix/Apache.

ASP can be easily integrated into HTML. It is a HTML Embedded Scripting Language, which means ASP statements and commands are actually embedded in your HTML documents. When the web server sees the ASP statements in the webpage, the server executes the statements and sends the resulting output along with the rest of the HTML.

Do I need ASP Web Hosting?
If your host offers ASP you can create forms, or webpages for interaction with visitors. Like other server-side scripting languages, ASP is excellent for creating dynamic websites based on database content or different characteristics of Internet browsers.

"Through the use of external libraries and functions, ASP can: Build templates to ease website maintenance, Serve different website content to users based on their browser, IP address, date and time, or numerous other characteristics, Conduct online surveys, build discussion forums and operate web-based e-mail programs, Connect databases like Access or SQL to the Web, and process XML."

ASP Web Hosting Teams with SQL Databases
ASP works hand in hand with SQL to give your visitors quick interaction with your site. Because ASP is free and available with almost any hosting provider (Windows or Unix(pacth)), combining ASP scripts and SQL databases has become the preferred method for creating dynamically operated websites. Alternatives to ASP, such as PHP and Coldfusion, are usually limited to hosting providers, or cost extra as does Sun's Java Server Pages (JSP).