ASP stands for Active Server Pages, which are HTML pages with the embedded ASP scripts that are processed on the server before the page is sent to the user. With the ASP, you can make dynamic database driven pages. A user can access data in a database and interact with the page objects such as Active X or Java components. ASP web hosting refers to the web hosting companies that provides support for ASP, Active Server Page.

When a user look a web site developed using ASP, depending on the actions of the user the pages can change. ASP code makes you able to link the web pages to a database, where the users can interact with the web pages by simply logging in, using their own personal settings or they can also interactively put orders on the site.