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Data Recovery InformationCGI Web Hosting - 3 Essential Scripts for your Business
by:
John Michaels
If there's one thing that folk love it is a web site that has plenty of machine-driven
features. Sites that are extremely
interactive tend to get the most traffic and generate the most business for the companies that run them. Machine-driven
features can likewise play a "behind the scenes" role, production
your site easier to use, run swimmingly
and allow for things like online sales and countersign protection. There are many an route to get this type of automation into your site, but all involve either client side or server side scripting.
Scripts are written in programming languages specially designed for the web, and there are several languages that are unremarkably used. Most client side scripts are written in Java which is still one of the better web programming languages around. Several functions of a web site must be completed via server side scripting, however, and the most unremarkably used languages for server side scripting are PHP, PERL, and CGI. PHP and PERL are newer languages and are gaining a lot of popularity, but there are still plenty of features that can be written
in the grandad of web scripting languages, CGI.
Shopping Carts
No online sales site would-be be complete without a functioning buying cart and most of the better ones have been written in CGI script. CGI web hosting is great for buying cart scripts because it interfaces well with most databases, including the popular MYSQL and MS Access databases, it can be utilised on Windows, UNIX, LINUX, and MACOS servers with equal ease, and can be easily designed for sales tax and shipping cost calculations. Several newer buying cart scripts are being written in PHP and PERL, but most of the functioning carts on the web are in nice old CGI web hosting scripts.
Password Protection
Many web sites require several sort of registration and entry of a countersign for the user to access the site's features. This is done for a number of reasons from just a desire to track visitors for marketing purposes to allowing postings on message boards and ensuring that users have paid any required fees associated with use of the site. The machine-driven
registration process and user name/password provision can be written with CGI scripts and many an of them have been.
Form Managers
Have you ever wondered how the forms you fill out online are handled? In most cases, they're handled by CGI web hosting. Once
a user fills in that form and hits the "submit" button, a CGI script takes over and sends the data in email or writes it to a information wherever
it can be accessed later by the site's administrators.
These are just a few of the uses for CGI scripts on today's web sites. There are virtually
hundreds of others and if there's thing
that can be done on a web site, it is thing
that can be done with CGI. PHP and PERL may be gaining a lot of quality
for various reasons, but CGI was with us 1st and it isn't going anywhere. As long as there are web sites, CGI web hosting wish remain king.
Just about the author:
John Michaels is a freelance author for WebHostPacks.com wherever
he on a regular basis
publishes articles on how to find a cheap web host and reviews of low cost web hosting services.
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