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• Email clients, such as email marketing tools
• Databases for products, vendors, clients, or any other information you need to organize
• News/Current Events sites
• Informational databases and directories
• Any other dynamically driven website

ASP (which stands for "Active Server Pages"), is a closed-source web coding language (meaning the code that created the language is not available for view and manipulation) built by Microsoft. It communicates with database technologies like MSSQL and MySQL to fuel database-driven websites. It powers informational websites, directories, and is a favorite of online electronics stores for constructing full e-commerce websites.
 
ASP is a server-side coding language, which means that it sits on the computers that host your website, invisible to the casual observer. If you try viewing the source of an ASP website, you will see only HTML, because your web browser processes the web page after the server processes the ASP.
 
Modules exist to adapt ASP to most server operating systems, but is best suited for use with the Server 2003 or IIS ("Internet Information Systems") servers on the Windows operating system. AWS hosting supports the Windows platform and ASP script, so if your existing site uses it or you would like to take advantage of ASP, there's absolutely no conflict of technologies.
 

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