ASP Best Practices

When Not to Use ASP

Do not use scripts in ASP pages in order to perform tasks that are readily accomplished by browser scripts, since ASP consumes server resources. By scripting the browser to perform tasks such as data validation, calculations, and selection of simple conditional output, you can save server resources for those tasks actually requiring ASP. For example, you could use a client-side script in order to validate the input data and to calculate monthly payments for a user who enters a loan amount and specifies the length of the repayment cycle.

To make the most efficient use of your server resources, use the .asp file name extension for pages that contain scripts or that are likely to need scripting in the future. Use the .htm extension for pages that will contain just HTML statements as well as scripts interpreted by the browser.