ASP (Active Server Pages)

The name Asp.Net, ASP represents a dll file with the name ASP.DLL and .Net represents .Net framework.

Asp.Net is the technology available in .Net for developing Web Applications. Asp.Net is only technology and not a language hence it requires C#Net or VB.Net language for writing the code.

Web Server 

Web Server is the software i.e responsible for the following :

• Contain all files related to your website.
• Provide security for the webpages related to your website.
• Accept request from the client, in the form of http request.
• Provide response to the client in the form of http response and provide communication with others servers like database server and email server.