Advantages of Windows Hosting

Casey Designs provides excellent uptime on a reliable windows hosting platform.  Windows 2003 integrates well with other Microsoft applications and there are many commercial applications available for this platform. If you need windows web hosting environment for your website, Casey Designs is the place for you.

Application Environment

Active Server Pages - To benefit from a powerful range of Microsoft technologies, choose from Casey Designs three Windows hosting options. Included with these options are Active Server Pages (ASP) scripting, which is a versatile scripting language that supports the dynamic creation of Web pages. Used in conjunction with an ODBC datasource, ASP's provide one of the best ways to create dynamic, database driven Web sites. ASP also has the flexibility to use Javascript and Visual Basic script.

Publishing Method

FrontPage extensions - FrontPage is a user-friendly application used to create, edit, manage and update a Web site. It provides a wide range of design themes and manages basic Web site features such as hyperlinks, search scripts, feedback forms, navigation and publishing. Click here for more information about Microsoft's FrontPage software.

Database Applications

The Windows 2003 environment supports a variety of database applications such as:

Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) An Open Database Connectivity datasource enables the use of SQL queries to connect to a database file that has been uploaded to Casey Designs's servers. Querying a database via ODBC is easy. SQL statements can be embedded into the Active Server Pages and the query is executed when a site visitor requests the page. The query output is used to display the Web page. Casey Designs currently supports the following ODBC sources: Microsoft Access up to 2000, SQL up to 2000 and Excel.

SQL Server 2000 SQL Server 2000 is a perfect solution for creating powerful database-driven Web sites. When compared to ODBC, SQL Server's basic features offer better query performance, the flexibility to create and delete tables in an on-line database, and the automatic repair and compression of database files. The power of SQL Server for dynamic content generation lies within the Active Server Pages scripting technology, which allows SQL queries to be embedded within Web pages for execution on the server side, before the HTML formatted results are returned to the client.

Based on a customer's programming choices, Windows 2000 Web Hosting is a great platform.

Advantages for Windows Hosting: Microsoft-specific applications such as FrontPage, Access and ASP. Very User-friendly Does not require FTPing (Develop your website directly on the web server) Allows Multiple Web Authors / Multiple Locations Scripting languages for dynamic content such as ASP, ColdFusion, Active Perl and Visual C++ Use of ODBC / DSN connections Other powerful database tools