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[Banderasme]

I need a reseller account that i can host Active server pages(ASP)

What about chilisoft ASP, are they good?

Also what about ASP::apache??

Are they as reliable as Windows Hosting??

Please let me know

[LightWeb]

I haven't tried ASP on Apache because I've heard nothing good about the combination. I use ASP at work on IIS and PHP or perl for nix, so my opinion would be to stick with a windows host for ASP. I will pay attention to this thread myself to see if anyone else has a positive post about using ASP with Apache.

[ArthurDavis]

ASP with Apache is not stable by a longshot. Sure you can run little 'hello world' scripts, but as far as a CPU intensive application goes, you can forget about it.

[Banderasme]

What do you guys think About Chilisoft ASP then??

Is that good and stable?

Will

[sizemik]

no
If you want ASP then go with windows

[csparks]

This is the real problem with asp. It was introducted by Mircosoft to increase the need for windows servers. Although I do know that some hosts can run windows servers just fine, I also know that before the word Windows come Mircosoft, and and thing with that word in it can be bad.

You will pay out your ass for a windows hosting account because unlike linux it costs the server owner(quoting from memery but may be wrong) $2000 for Win2000 Advanced Server license. Like I said that quote may be wrong, but I do know that linux is free and windows is not. Not to mention that imo a windows server is less stable than a nicly ran linux server.

ASP is great, and so is .net, but most of the things you can get from asp you can also get from jsp. Although jsp is unliked by some hosts, it has came a long way. JSP interperturs are now almost as fast as ASP.

I know that this is not exactly the answer to your questions, it is food for though.

If you understand my ranting that is, lol.

[MadeOfWood]

Ok i am having this same problem.

I need a host who can provide me with the ability to run a php script as well as a .asp.

Anyone got some advice on what to do?

[sizemik]

it depends on which is more important to you
PHP or ASP

if ASP is more important then Windows with PHP
if PHP is more important then Linux/Unix with Chillsoft

[MadeOfWood]

Both important as going to have to sites than run on different languages

[rusko]

php runs on windows much better than asp does on linux.

interseen: aargh. there are no 'jsp interpreters'. java is a compiled language. (what it is compiled into is a different matter).

paul

[csparks]

rusko

Yeah I knew I was not using the right word. About to start learning jsp.

I first put compiler and said wait is that right. DUH!

Thanks!

[Alex042]

You'll also want to consider what database you'll be running as ASP is typically tied with MS Access and/or MS Sql on Win and mySql on Nix. Most ASP scripts aren't written for mySql however so you may find yourself rewriting some scripts to get it to work on a Nix box. PHP, on the other hand, is typically written for mySql and most Win servers don't support mySql so you may find yourself rewriting PHP to run on a Win box.

As for ChiliSoft vs Apache ASP, ChiliSoft supports some VBScript, which most Win ASP scripts utilize, whereas Apache ASP doesn't support VBScript. This comes at a small price though however as Chilisoft isn't free.

[pmabraham]

Greetings:

SunOne, which I believe is the new name for ChiliSoft ASP, is approximately 90 to 95% compatible with Microsoft's implementation of ASP.

Most of the incompatibilities come in the form of Windows native operating system issues and components like CDNOTS (Java beans is used instead of DLL's et all).

Take care.

[rusko]

you can install mysql on a bloze box, but i want to see you run mssql on linux =]

your best bet is probably one of the companies that offers win/lin reseller accounts all rolled into one.

paul

[intellec]

you might try blacksun.ca
they seem to offer the best of both worlds (maybe)