What does Asp refer to?
Our web pages come in a variety of flavours. Some are straightforward html pages, the standard language used to create web pages. Others end with the shorter suffix .htm, yet others with Asp (ASP stands for Active Server Page). When you request a page ending Asp from our hosting provider, it tells the host server you will be requiring database content for that page. A different server architecture is required to host Asp pages than standard html pages. Standard ASP pages contain all the content the user might require for the page (every variable is contained within the page as it appears in your browser). These are ‘client side’ solutions and are useful for low level form filling and basic database needs. We however use SQL Server 2000, a Database Management System (DBMS) to deliver a premium server side service. The page suffix remains Asp but the technology delivers pages via an SQL server, and is far more sophisticated. Server side pages enable more complex data transactions and del
