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[jake550]

I have made a website which includes some asp which writes to a database, I need to put it online how to I go about
doing this and do I need a certain type of hosting to support my access database?? After I have put it online how will I access the data that my site creates and writes to my
database? any help would be great!!

[abranei]

You will need website hosting that support asp/asp.net depending on which language you have developed in. Usually asp is run on Windows hosting using IIS Internet Information server (Serves webpages to IE)

I suggest that you use the tech support line of your choosen hosting provider as they will have a folder to place your access database in which is secure. DO NOT PLACE IN THE PUBLIC WEB FOLDER otherwise you database can be downloaded and the data read. They wil also help trouble shoot issues like connection issues to you DB

You have a few options in accessing the data in the DB. First you could write some asp to get the data out of the DB and present it on a web page. Second you could FTP to the database folder download a copy to your pc and open it using Access so you can read the data in the tables.

[IggyB]

www.better-hosting.com has reviews of quite a few shared web hosts available but only recommends one Windows hosts called EasyCGI this will support you asp and is top rated for that sort of hosting... my advise is check their FAQs or email them

[IggyB]

oops that should be http://www.better-hosting.com

[alexshah]

get Microsoft windows hosting for asp, 5GB space at http://www.hosting3i.com

[FredKBland]

Then its best to use PowerUphosting which has some good features of accessing database safe and securely. It allows you to retrieve the data very fast because its every server runs on Intel processors. To know more information you may visit here:- http://poweruphosting.com