ASP hosting is actually the Windows branch of web hosting services. This type of web hosting was designed to help people to develop dynamic web pages. ASP was designed to function with Microsoft’s IIS server application. As ASP is a popular scripting technology used worldwide, people are opting for it at a faster pace. Currently ASP.net has diminished its popularity to some extent but the core factors associated with the ASP web hosting remain almost the same.
ASP web hosting enables the company to create a self-defined web solution using the ASP technology. ASP is defined as a specification for a web page with .ASP extension that uses ActiveX scripting which could be a VB Script or Jscript code. These are HTML pages with embedded ASP scripts that are processed on the server before pages are being sent to the user. An ASP is similar to CGI scripts only they enable Visual Basic programmers work with the usual tools. A browser’s request for an ASP will generate the web server a page with HTML code then sends it back to the browser. ASP allows you to create database driven pages; user can access data in a database and interact with page objects.
  It is one of the easiest server side scripting languages to learn because its source is from Basic Language. No wonder many new users learning the server side scripting get their hands on ASP software before anything else.As ASP has been established for quite some time, there are thousands of readily available ASP scripts and web applications which you can easily get from the market for your web hosting used. These are of a admixture of chargeless and paid scripts and web applications depend on their content and user-friendliness. It is hassle free because of its accessibility in most of the hosting packages, and best of all, it is available in all windows hosting packages. Therefore if you are a totally fan of Windows XP/2000, no worries at all that ASP is there in the software package for sure.