If you want to run Active Server Pages or ASP as it is most often referred, you are looking for a cheap web hosting company that provides ASP hosting. ASP hosting will give you the ability to utilize all the flexibility and power of Microsoft's ASP server-side scripting language.
ASP pages have the file extension .asp and require your web host to provide ASP hosting. Generally this is accomplished on a web server that is running Microsoft's Windows software; however, it is possible to run ASP on a UNIX server with the proper additional software installed. The server is where the ASP scripting is interpreted and then passed on to the user's browser as your website; therefore ASP, while needing specific ASP hosting to run, can be viewed on any type of web browser. You can use ASP for all sorts of applications, from simple form data collection to full blown ecommerce websites.
Although ASP is a very powerful and robust way of building a website, it is readily available through many cheap web hosting companies. To see if a particular web host offers ASP hosting simply look through their hosting plan features for the letters ASP! It's as simple as that.
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