Windows Web Hosting FAQ

What is Windows Hosting?
What is ASP?
What is ASP.NET?
Shared or Windows? Which should you choose?

What is Windows Hosting?
Windows Hosting is hosting account that uses windows as their server platform that allows for software such as MS FrontPage, ColdFusion and MSSQL. Windows Hosting is a popular choice among programmers requiring ASP and MS SQL for their work

What is ASP?
Active Server Pages, introduced by Microsoft in the mid-1990s, is a scripting language designed to be embedded within the HTML code for Web pages. This is the standard programming system for Internet applications hosted on Windows servers. With ASP, you can combine HTML pages, script commands, and COM components to create interactive Web pages or powerful Web-based applications, which are easy to develop and modify.

What is ASP.NET?
ASP.net(sometimes referred to as ASP+) is the next generation of Microsoft's Active Server Page technology(ASP). ASP.net is different from its predecessor in two major ways: it supports code written in compiled languages like C++, Visual Basic, and Perl. Also, it is able to separate the code from the content, allowing WYSIWYG editing of pages.

Although ASP.NET is not backwards compatible with ASP, it is able to run side by side with ASP applications.

Shared or Windows? Which should you choose?
There's no definite answer to this question. It's what you need to do with your site that lead you to the type of hosting. If you want the tightest security then Unix is probably for you. If you’re looking for compatibility with all of Microsoft's products, then Windows is the best for you. If you opt to use PHP to power your web site, then you’ll want to go with Unix hosting. Between Windows and Unix server, there is no difference in terms of ease of use and speed.