Active Server Components

Active Server Pages

ASP (Active Server Pages) is enabled on all of our Windows NT web servers. ASP can be used to create, complex, consumer oriented web applications such as shopping carts and personnel oriented databases. This is usually accomplished in conjunction with MS Access and MS SQL Server.

You've probably already noticed that most of the pages on this web site have the .asp extension. HostingCentral's extensive experience in both hosting and developing ASP based sites ensures your active site stays active. Our servers are tuned and built to withstand ASP's demands.

XML (Extensible Markup Language)

HostingCentral has been working with XML development since its early stages. XML has rapidly become a standard that many software vendors and development firms have adapted to. XML is the future for all data transmission and data manipulation over the Web.

In the real world, computer systems and databases contain data in incompatible formats. One of the most time consuming challenges for developers has been to exchange data between such systems over the Internet. Converting the data to XML can greatly reduce this complexity and create data that can be read by different types of applications.

Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)

Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) provides a universal open standard for bringing Internet content and advanced Value Added Services to mobile phones and other wireless devices. It is the platform for the new generation of "media phones".

As a result, WAP provides a wide range of wireless services which are independent of the underlying digital wireless network technology. WAP will enable users of mobile phones supporting the protocol to have access to information and transactional services, such as restaurant and hotel information, stock trading, banking services, directory services, exchange rates, flight schedules, and train and bus timetables.

The mobile phone is going to be the universal personal interface to information. By coding your own WAP pages, you can tailor company-specific applications, adding tremendous value to your everyday operations. The only limitation is your imagination.

A large portion of the mobile phones sold in the world next year will be WAP equipped, and these phones will require secure connections to corporate networks. Now is the time to grasp this opportunity.

Perl Support

Perl for Win32 is ActiveState's port of most of the functionality found in Perl, with the addition of extra Win32 API specific calls that allow you to take advantage of Windows specific functionality.

Personal cgi-bin Directory

CGI Applications may be run within your site via placement in the cgi-bin directory that is pre-installed on every site. This is not a shared directory on the web server. It is a private directory for use with only your web site.

Server-Side Includes (SSI)

You can use server-side include (SSI) directives to include text, graphics, or application information into a Web page just before sending content to the browser. SSI can be used to include, for example, a time/date stamp, a copyright notice, or a form for a customer to fill out and return. Including a file is an easy way to incorporate text or graphics that is repeated in many files. Rather than typing the information into every file, you use a simple statement that instructs the Web server to insert the file.

MS Index Server

Index Server is a powerful search engine for Internet Information Server. Many clients find this feature very useful for sites containing lots of information. Microsoft FrontPage supports Index Server when using the built in search component wizards. You can request to have your web site indexed at any time by special request.

MS Transaction Server

Microsoft Transaction Server combines the flexibility and low-costs of desktop applications with the mission critical transaction processing features normally found in high-end mainframe systems. Microsoft Transaction Server is a component-based transaction processing system for developing, deploying, and managing high performance, scalable, and robust enterprise, Internet and intranet server applications. Transaction Server defines an application programming model for developing distributed, component-based applications. It also provides a run-time infrastructure for deploying and managing these applications.

You can have components registered on Microsoft Transaction Server by special request. You must allow our technicians to review your components before they are registered.

SSL Secure Server

SSL (Secure Socket Layer) has become a widely used measure of security on the Internet. Our servers are certified for use with secured access for data transferred involving payment methods and sensitive information.

You can use this service with or without your own secure certificate. Please see http://web.archive.org/web/20011212122247/http://www.verisign.com/ or http://web.archive.org/web/20011212122247/http://www.thawte.com/ for more information on getting your own secure certificate.