
What Is an ASP File? Files created with Active Server Pages have the extension .ASP. This story is an example; take a look at the address above. With ASP files, you can activate your Web site using any combination of HTML, scripting such as JavaScript or Visual Basic?
Is It Hard to Use? I don't know about you, but whenever people start talking about doing things on the server, I start to get nervous. I think a lot about threading issues, synchronization, and generally stuff without a user interface. I assume it's going to be hard to do. Well, using ASP is about as easy as anything I've come across in years.
Aw, Mom. Not Another Object Model! I really hate doing this to you, but I'm going to have to use that overused and overcomplex term "object model" again. Here's how it works. When a browser requests an ASP file from your Web server, your Web server calls Active Server Pages to read through the ASP file, executing any of the commands contained within and sending the resulting HTML page to the browser.
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Web Hosting Partners
You'll want to login to your control panel to do such things as view web traffic statistics, set up email addresses, set up databases, do backups, etc. Every web hosting company offers a control panel to manage your account (cPanel, Plesk, Helm, and Hsphere are the most popular control panels offered by web hosting companies, but some have even built there own to customize it to their services). They all offer basically the same features. In the control panel you can read your email, or set it up to be read through an email program like Outlook. You will also manage databases here, view your website’s performance, backup your website, install pre-built scripts, etc.
You can use the control panel to upload your website’s files, but a lot of programmers prefer to do this through a separate FTP program.There will be more on this later. You should have a way to login before your domain propagates. This will allow you to get started on your control panel while propagation is occurring.
Once you are logged in to your control panel, you'll want to setup at least one email address. Even if you do not want one, it is good to at least define one as a catch all to make sure you do not miss any emails sent to your domain.
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