How important is it to have ASP support? I am considering ChiliSoft ASP but at $500 I am wondering if the cost would justify itself.

To me ASP on a Linux machine seems a little wrong. I also tend to believe that people looking for ASP hosting probably will need other Windows related stuff, such as Access and/or MSSQL. Yes, it is possible to have a Windows machine as well and your Linux machine could then remote connect to these services, but still...

I would rather offer ASP hosting on Windows machines.

That is what I was thinking. ASP was developed as a PHP for Windows and now they want to have ASP for Linux. ASP I thought should stay on Windows machines I just wanted to see if anyone had alternate thoughts.

but the really interesting question is actually what the customers think.

Although I feel better offering services I feel comfortable myself, but if the customers want pasta with their hamburgers instead of pommes frites then hey, it's a business and as a businessman one needs to adapt to the real world.

So, all of you offering ASP on Linux machines: is it common and do people really use it?

We haven't had a single person use ASP on our servers. I think its rather pointless myself when you have php.

We've had around half a dozen requests in 12 months :) Of those two of them are hosted with us anyway, and use Perl or PHP instead. *shrug*

We've thought about farming out ASP to a windows machine, or just using an account with handyhosting to host them, but as yet there just isn't the demand for it.

Greg Moore