You have determined that your company's website is housed on a web server that cannot handle ASP. What would you do?
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Contact the ISP and have them switch the website to have ASP capability.
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Have your ISP install the Microsoft FrontPage extensions
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Develop a transition plan first that includes a step-by-step plan on every detail prior to contacting the ISP.
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All the above
A transition plan should precede any ISP contact to ensure organized migration with minimal downtime. This includes inventorying existing pages, planning code changes, testing on a development server, scheduling the switch, and preparing rollback procedures. Contacting the ISP first (A) without preparation risks incomplete migration and extended outages.
Before making any infrastructure change like switching web hosting capability, sound practice is to plan the transition in detail — scope, risks, rollback, timeline — before contacting the ISP or making changes. Jumping straight to asking the ISP to enable ASP or install FrontPage extensions skips the planning step and risks a botched migration.