Types of technologies used in web hosting
Today we have various web technologies that are used in web hosting. Each technology has its own benefits and limitations. Therefore, web developers mainly use a combination of two or more technologies as to get maximum results. Some of the common web hosting technologies includes windows hosting for micro software windows operating system, UNIX hosting from UNIX operation system and LINUX hosting for LINUX operation systems. Apart from these, the other main technologies for web hosting are ASP, PHP, JSP, CGI, Cold Fusion etc. Let’s have a brief idea about some of these web hosting technologies.
• ASP: It is one of the commonly used web hosting technologies today. It is developed by Microsoft. It helps the developers in creating dynamic web pages in HML scripting code. HTML codes are executed by the server which resides in the remote areas before submitting the web pages to the browser. ASP technologies use both VB Script as well as Java Scripts for generating the codes.
• JSP: It was developed by Sun Microsoft and its functionalities are much similar to ASP. JSP uses Java code to create HTML dynamic web pages. As it uses Java code, it is not limited to a particular platform and can be applied to all types of servers.
• PHP: One of the best alternatives for ASP is PHP. It is free and efficient web hosting technology which is widely used. The syntax of PHP is very much similar to Perl and C. Some of the main advantages of PHP are it supports different types of databases like MySQL, Oracle, Solid, Generic ODBC and PostgreSQL.