Hi!

Seems you missed the point here in the starting thread. We're talking about NEW host - WEB server machine that is hosted by company, not by ISP. ISP here is just to provide connection to the Internet. So problems here might be only with connection. There is definitely a way to connect Windows server with Unix server. Than install IIS at the WIndows server and it will go despite connection from ISP is on Unix server. ASP runs on Windows machine, here I agree. But there are also Apache versions that allow run something similar to ASP at the Unix server.

YMMV.


>It all depends on if it's strictly a hosting situation or not. If the ISP is hosting everything and they're UNIX and they offer no NT/2000 options, then you probably are not going to be able to have any ASP scripts.
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>If you host your own and the ISP is UNIX, then ,no, it doesn't matter since you can do anything on your own web server.
>>Hi!
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>>This does not matter from technical point of view. You can connect your Win2000/NT server to pure UNIX ISP machine, if you know how to configure everything. You just require software and install/configure it properly. Well, good ISP can also give you software for installation the web server and definitely Unix fans will not give it - you;re right here. Once I connected to such ISP. And have to configure everything by self because they even did not had any tips or guidelines on how to install and configure Windows 2000 to work through modem with their services 8) It took me 1 working day to figure out all details and experiment a lot before I first time established connection through modem :(
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>>>Sounds like that's a very basic service provider - I would definitely shop around. They should have something like "Windows 2000/NT Shared Hosting Services" or maybe where they say something about FrontPage extensions. If there's none of that, they may be a heavy UNIX/Apache ISP in which case I would look elsewhere...
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>>>If you consider in-house hosting, DSL connections are a strong alternative to something like a T1 line...
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>>>>Thanks for the guidelines, that makes it clearer.
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>>>>I did check out a service provider but couldn't spot anything that gave me a list of the features I could use, just things about unlimited web-space/emails/support etc.
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>>>>Kev