Windows Web Hosting
Web hosting companies provides two different operating systems for hosting web sites of their users. One is UNIX web hosting and second is Windows web hosting. Windows web hosting means the company server is using Microsoft windows operating system and it is best if you design your site on Microsoft plate form. ASP (active server pages) is a Microsoft language used to design the dynamic web sites like PHP and other and requires windows hosting to be hosted. ASP is Microsoft server-side scripting language. The web pages design in ASP is with the extension of .asp. These pages are design with the HTML (Hyper Text Mark Up language) and some scripts which are written in VB Script or Jscript languages. This language is very useful for dynamic data accessing. You can create different users, which can access data by logging into the site and user can use their own personal setting or can place order on to your site.

Working Of ASP
Asp is a server side scripting language, mostly used for dynamic updating of site and link with data base. When you write URL (universal resource locator) in to your browser, like internet explorer, then this explorer send a request to the web server for desired web site. If you request for a static web site like HTML, then server return the page as it is. If you are requesting for an ASP page then firstly html code is executed and after this execution immediately asp script is execute for current updating like time or other fresh data in database.

ASP Web Hosting
If you design your site in ASP then you required a web host company, who will host your website on Microsoft plate form like windows server. Windows servers are best for ASP web site hosting because they are more reliable and efficient for ASP pages. Asp language is designed by Microsoft, so only those web hosting companies can host your sites, which has a windows platform and provides facility of Asp Hosting. The Microsoft server for ASP is IIS (internet information services), which is a built in component of Microsoft windows and is used for asp web host. Some web hosting companies provides cheap ASP web hosting services, before selecting any company please read reviews about that web hosting company. If you are connecting a database with your site, then make sure that your ASP web hosting company provides the facility of data base hosting. You can find cheap windows based web site hosting, for your webs site.
Microsoft has recently launched a newer version of asp known as Asp.Net. And for those sites, which are built in this version asp.net hosting is required. Asp.net web hosting is a more efficient hosting as compared to asp hosting with enhanced features. Windows hosting, net web hosting and asp hosting are all windows platforms designed by Microsoft.