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Asp Web Hosting

In any ASP Web Hosting plan, some standard features are provided depending on the type you opt for. Email, databases and other technological features have to be carefully scrutinized before you choose a plan.

An ASP Web hosting will provide you with a limited number of email accounts for the starter plans. For enterprise plans, you may get unlimited email accounts. You can check the email forwarding, email aliasesand email auto response features. A ‘catch all e-mail’ feature is also provided by many ASP web host providers. Nowadays, with an increase in spam mail, you have to look for anti-spam filtering feature in your ASP Web Hosting plan. If you need your web application to have databases, so that you can create dynamic database driven websites, then you have to look for the type of database that is supported by ASP web hosting. By default, all the ASP web hosting providers give support to MS Access database. - by Kristy Annely

Choosing ASP Web Hosting

ASP web hosting really needs to be based on the Microsoft Windows Server operating system (Windows 2003 Server) which ASP.NET was designed to run on.

Most web hosts will provide you with a control panel to fully manage your ASP web hosting, running on there Windows servers. As with standard shared hosting your host will provide you with FTP access to your ASP Web Hosting account to allow you to upload your web files and scripts. Any ASP Web Hosting should allow you to:

Upload and manage your web files and scripts using the FTP via Microsoft Visual Web Design or Visual Studio.

Allow you to set permissions on your files or folders you have hosted in ASP web space so that your scripts function properly.

The ability to connect to and manage any databases such as full Microsoft SQL Server Microsoft SQL Server Manager Express, which is a stripped down version of Microsoft’s SQL, but ideal for web applications (though connections are more restricted).

The ability to host conventional web pages (html) and scripts written using either classic ASP or the ASP.NET programming language.

Some hosts do offer “ASP Web Hosting” running on Linux servers, using using the Sun Chilisoft ASP Environment. ASP.NET has advanced to version 3.5. You should only choose a Windows based ASP web hosting package if your scripts or applications required ASP and ASP.NET. - by Paul Lee

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