ASP Web Hosting

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Active Server Pages (ASP) is a popular simple Microsoft's script engine for dynamically-generated web pages. Programming ASP websites is made easier by various built-in objects. Each object corresponds to a group of frequently-used functions useful for creating dynamic web pages. In ASP 2.0 there are six such built-in objects: Application, ASPError, Request, Response, Server, and Session. Session, for example, is a cookie-based session object that maintains variables from page to page. Web pages with the ".asp" file extension use ASP, although some Web sites disguise their choice of scripting language for security purposes. The ".aspx" extension is not an ASP page, but an ASP.NET page, another server-side scripting language from Microsoft, based on a mixture of traditional ASP, and Microsoft's .NET technology. Most ASP pages are written in VBScript, but any other Active Scripting engine can be selected instead by using the @Language directive or the (script language="language" runat="server") syntax. JScript (Microsoft's implementation of ECMAScript) is the other language that is usually available. PerlScript (a derivative of Perl) and others are available as third-party installable Active Scripting engines.

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ASP web hosting refers to web hosting companies that provide support for Active Server Pages (ASP). If you need a dynamic, database-driven website you might wish to embed ASP code into your website’s HTML Pages. When a visitor is viewing a website that is developed using ASP, the pages often change depending on the actions of the user. ASP code allows you to link your web pages to a database. Your visitors can then interact with the page by logging in and using their own personal settings or they can interactively place orders on your website.  What is ASP? ASP stands for Active Server Pages. Active Server Pages are HTML pages with embedded ASP scripts that are processed by the server before the page is delivered to the user. ASP allows you to create powerful, dynamic database-driven pages where a user can access data in the database and interact with page objects such as Java components or Active X controls.  How does ASP work? When you type a URL into the address bar or click on a link, you're asking the web server to send a file to your PC. If the file consists of standard HTML, your web browser receives the page and displays it precisely the same as it exists on the web server. But if an ASP file is sent to your computer from the web server, the server will run the HTML code first, and then run the ASP script code. For example, the ASP code could display the current date, time, or other useful information.  It is much safer to host your ASP pages on a Microsoft server because they are more stable and most ASP components work seamlessly with Internet Information Services (IIS), which is specific to Windows. Bizhostnet.com offers ASP WEB HOSTING based on Windows 2008 and 2003 servers. You also need to consider whether your web site uses a database (e.g. MS SQL, MS Access), and then make sure your web hosting plan includes support for the type of database your web site uses.