ASP Web Hosting

ASP and ASP.NET should really ideally run on Microsoft Windows Server. Please note some hosts do offer "ASP Hosting" running on Linux servers, using using the Sun Chilisoft ASP Environment. It can be slightly frustrating to host your Microsoft developed scripts on a Linux host, as there are a few subtle differences between Linux and Windows hosts (such as file and case sensitivity).

Classic ASP has been quite a while now (at least 10 years or so) and was only recently replaced by Microsoft's improved ASP.NET platform. ASP.NET has advanced to version 3.5. ASP web hosting has tended to be a "niche market" with a few hosting specialists, but is increasing in popularity, partly due to ready developed packages. Backwards compatibility has been maintained so you older asp applications should work on servers running the newer scripting environment.

If your web site only needs static html pages, or perhaps open source scripting technologies such as PHP, Perl or Python then a standard Linux shared hosting package should suffice. Windows based ASP web hosting package is really only required if your scripts or applications demand ASP and ASP.NET.

Some people have chosen Windows Web Hosting in the past because thats what their desktop PC runs. The choice of your home PC operating system has no bearing on your choice of Linux our Windows host, unless you have used your own PC to develop Windows applications.