Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Benefits And Pluses Of ASP Hosting

By Benji Bay

If you really want to learn about web hosting and related services offered by hosting companies, you really have to dive right in. The knowledge and understanding that you will gain can and will save you money in so many different ways. It is truly amazing!

To understand, what is ASP hosting and its working, it is very important to know better which the right choice for a user is? Let us define first what is an ASP? Basically, ASPs are a way of selling and distributing softwares on the web.

What does ASP stand for? It stands for application service provider. To more fully understand what it is and what it does, lets take a second to highlight some of the ASP's that are out there. Amazon.com, eBay.com, and Opinions.com are all ASP's. These companies deliver software solutions and they perform many other tasks as well.

ASP's own and operate the software solution they are providing. Because of this, prices to the user are pretty affordable. The software application is hosted on a server owned by the software company, they provide support and maintain it as well. The software should be available to use anywhere there is an internet connection.

Another, key factor for ASP hosting is that the company will charge the users, as per the usage for the application and they may set up a monthly or even annually payment. It is often, that they will not take charges to use the applications. In some cases, one has to pay the customer to use the application.

There are many web hosting companies who offer ASP hosting, a few of them include myhosting, hostexcellence, and ipowerweb. They each offer this unique hosting service, but their features vary a little bit. Myhosting.com offers ASP hosting and uses Windows as their operating system. The trend among most hosting providers is that ASP is becoming more of a standard across the board.

Any other web hosting provider who does not offer ASP hosting usually provides the open source PHP programming capabilities. In most cases ASP hosting is a better solution for companies since it is run on a proprietary operating system.

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