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Stylish ASP.NET pages, for instance, are a welcoming change from the old static pages of the past. They are nice to look at, and their functions greatly outweigh those of primitive HTML pages, contributing to their greatly improved interactivity. With the emergence of numerous ASP websites, there is also the increase in the number of companies offering ASP web hosting services.
Active Server Pages, or ASP, is a server side scripting technology that is utilized to build interactive web pages. Based on the program, the pages are dynamically generated at server end. It has gained popularity due to its flexibility, ease of use and ability to support other languages such as C#, VBScript and more. It can be readily associated with ASP.NET, a framework that makes creation of sophisticated programs easier and possible. Both are created by Microsoft. Considering the characteristics of ASP, hosting ASP websites entail special requirements like additional components and services.
ASP can be used to create creative data-driven web pages. The data are retrieved and processed during runtime. This means that an ASP page's contents and data may change depending on the interaction of the user with the website. Pretty nice, compared to old static pages where the only way to change the contents is by updating the codes. Considering these characteristics of ASP, a good ASP web host must be able to address the demands of such websites by means of additional server components and services needed to run them.
ASP and ASP.NET web pages have become powerful in terms of their ability to communicate with the database for data transactions. Therefore, ASP web hosting services readily include nifty databases to cater this issue. Since open-sourced, MySQL database normally comes free with most ASP web hosts. Also, MS Access databases are supported by most of these ASP web hosts. However, these web hosts also support MS SQL Server. In fact, to personally manage databases, it is possible to have somewhat like an online manager to do the organization which greatly makes working on data and the database easier.
Similarly, ASP web hosts also provide support for ADO.NET. As part of the Microsoft .NET framework, ADO.NET is used to access data and data services too. Almost all ASP web hosting entities offer these features as the integral part of their package. No wonder ASP and ASP.NET have become a preference for most web developers, considering these features essential for a more a more interactive web experience.
