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that hosts more sites than any other, supports a flavor of ASP. ASP, by definition, can run on any type of server with any compatible scripting language. Therefore, technically, the answer is yes. However, you cannot generally take ASP code that was written for VBScript on IIS and drop it into an Apache server.

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