ASP capabilities and limitations?
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Topic: ASP capabilities and limitations?
Posted By: clock
Subject: ASP capabilities and limitations?
Date Posted: 14 November 2006 at 9:33pm
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I am working on a complex new introduction and networking website which has been written in ASP. The are 3 databases which are in Access. We now have to find a new coder to complete the project and the new coders have said that they think there are severe limitations with ASP. We have been advised that we may be limited to the number of online users at any one time and that an automated feedback system cannot be supported. Does anyone have any details on these issues that could help me? I really dont want to have to start the whole website from scratch all over again.  Any info very gratefully received. |
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Posted By: dj air
Date Posted: 15 November 2006 at 9:32am
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the users online are limited by the server
i would advise against Access as a back end db and use MSSQL or MySQL (MSSQL is better overall)
it depends on the Limitations for the feedback what features are they saying are not possible
you can buy Components to automaticlly scan a mailbox if its a ticket system, you can send email using CDOSYS (built in the web servers)
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Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 16 November 2006 at 1:18am
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As dj_air noted, ASP is not your bottleneck. MS Access and the number of connections the server is configured to support is. The server configuration issue will be true regardless of what language is used. MS Access is a horrible web DB - slow and faulty. Jmail supports querying mailboxes. JMailBox is a free asp app that provides an example of how to do it. I think your coders are bullsh*tting you.  ------------- 
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Posted By: clock
Date Posted: 16 November 2006 at 9:28am
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Thanks very much for those replies. I feel much happier about ASP now. We are running the site on a 250GB Windows Server. Would Apache be better and faster? Can we run ASP files on Apache? |
Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 16 November 2006 at 9:55am
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ASP runs much better on Windows IIS as ASP is a Microsoft thing. 3rd parties do write software to make ASP work on Apache, but most of it sucks ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: zMaestro
Date Posted: 16 November 2006 at 1:04pm
I think the limitations is in your new coders 
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