Need me a host

[Cota]

Ok, so I've working on this Screen Capture component, its all coded and ready to be tested, but it cant be tested locally. My hosting company, Affinity.net, cant keep their S*** together and my hosting is out of whack.

So here's the question, anyone know of any free ASP hosting, or extremely cheap hosting that I can use to test this thing? I only have 3 requirements, obviously it must support ASP, any of the ASP mail objects, and support DLL's.

P.S. All the people at Affinity.net web hosting should commit suicide.

[dzy2566]

I highly recommend www.lucidpc.net. They're cheap and their tech support is phenomenal. They're still in the process of building their open panel, but it's still very decent. I know they have php running on their server, but I'm not sure if they have asp.

Their fees are $5 a month. I've found cheaper, but I've always gotten what I paid for. Their admin (and owner/founder I think) is Michael Kroher who can be reached at admin@lucidpc.com He's a super-nice guy and has helped me personally on several issues. He even used to check up on oustanding questions, just looking to see if I ever figured out what was wrong. Sounds like I work for them, doesn't it? Anyway, I'm very pleased with their service and am happy to try to toss them some business.

Good luck. Oh, and conversely, I will STRONGLY suggest you AVOID www.websytz.com. Those guys are a nightmare.

[Cota]

I checked them out, no windows servers.

[dzy2566]

Well, that sort of blows the ASP thing, huh? :)

[CyanBlue]

These came up from the Google and I think you could try any of these to see if you can use... I'd love to help you on that, but my host does not offer ASP... :(

http://www.oinko.net/freeasp/

http://www.1asphost.com/
http://www1.websamba.com/default.asp
http://www.free-asp-hosting.com/
http://www.7host.com/free_hosting/free_hosting.asp

[Cota]

Just what I was looking for. Guess I should have thought of Google myself, but hey, I'm slow sometimes.

[CyanBlue]

Hehe... It's okay... That's why I am here for... :D

Got a quick question while I am at it... ;)
I know that I can do <?php phpinfo(); ?> in the host to see if the PHP is installed or not... If the host supports PHP, I will get the information but if not, it will prompt for the file download... What is the simple code snippet that I can do the same thing in ASP??? ;)

[Cota]

I'm not too sure on that one. The problem with windows hosts is that yes they are suppose to run ASP period, but all those damn windows permissions get in the way. Which is the current problem I'm having with my host. The permissions keep resetting themselves so that ASP will not run. Sorry, ranting here. I think the closest thing ASP has to that are:

ScriptEngine
ScriptEngineBuildVersion
ScriptEngineMajorVersion
ScriptEngineMinorVersion

These are build in ASP functions.

[CyanBlue]

Hm... Alrighty... That's easy to remember... :)
I do not have the use for it right now, but if I have to go over that odeal again, I'll try to remember that... ;)

Here is the reason why I was asking that question... Well... pretty much generalized version of my question anyways... :)
As you can see, I am not really good at ASP... My knowledge on ASP is pretty much zippo... But I sometimes have to read the ASP scripts so that I can plug it into the Flash which basically requires only response.write, right??? :)
So, I download some script from the one of the examples from the forum that is done in ASP... I extract the file into the IIS main directory of my computer and it sometimes runs fine when I say http://localhost/whatever/anyhow.asp in the IE...
But, sometimes, the script does not run perfectly when there isn't much of the difference between two ASP file... So, I test it on another machine to find out it was working properly...
It wasn't really important thing... It was more likely checking to see what the script does and what-nots...

Come to think of it, maybe I am missing some additional class file or something that is installed on that computer, but not on my computer or something... Um... I don't know... Don't mind me... I am just mumbling... :D

[Cota]

A lot of ASp components have to be installed as addins. For example, CDONTS have to be installed, a lot of people just assume its like every other language where you just code and a compiler takes care of the rest. Also, sometimes IIS hickips and shuts down for no apparent reason. The local IIS is limited to what it can do, basically the bare minimum.

[CyanBlue]

Oh... I see... :)

I have no intention of turning this thread to ASP 101 class, but one queick question regarding this library stuff...
Set myMail = CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail")
I am sure that's pretty common usage of the CDONTS, right???
Is there any specific line that should say something like 'include "CDONTS librar' or is there any way you can have ASP intepreter to throw out the error message if the required library is not installed???

[Cota]

When the component or library is installed on the server, it becomes a server object. So you dont have to write any include statements. You're close on the usage, its:

Set MyMail = Server.CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail")


Thats pretty much how you would use most of the ASP components. DLL's work almost the same way. And if its not installed, it will spit back an error like Object not recognized, or no object found.

[CyanBlue]

Hm... That means that there is no way to find out what object is missing if I don't know much about the script in case something is missing... :D
Hehe... Thanks alot... This is more than I need in terms of the ASP 101... :)

[Cota]

Yeah, the only way to find out if the object is there is try and use to see if it works, or ask the SysAdmin.

Next week, VB 101.....

[CyanBlue]

Hehe... Got it... Abit inconvinient, but I guess that's how things are to be done... :D

Well... Take the VB 101 out and add C# 101 instead... :)

[Cota]

I think everyone underestimates the power of VB. This screen capture component I'm working on is mostly VB saved as ActiveX. Thouhg C# is a lot more flexible with the web, VB is still a language I couldnt live without.

[CyanBlue]

Hm... I think the last time I touched VB was probably somewhere around VB5... I id a couple of class projects in VB really really long time ago... :D
That app is done in VB... Yeah... You've got the full support from the MS when you have the right tool... :)

The reason why I think I should learn C# is because all my company's backend has just moved to C#, so I sorta need to read the code whenever I need to pull the data from backend... We do have backend programmer, but we need to figure out the problem together, so I need to know C# abit more in depth... I've done Java for about 1.5 year or so, so C# is not really a remote world to me, but I still need to start learning somewhere... That's how I learn things or two... ;)