The opposite of SSI would be "Client Side Inlcudes". CSI examples are javascript. Javascript is a client side scritpting. which means that date or the code script is processed by your browser not the server.
Does my server support SSI?
The first thing that needs to be settled is whether your server supports SSI and have it enabled. SSI is a Linux/Apache specific feature, so if you're on a Windows server for example, you'll need to look for the Windows equivalent of SSI (sorry, not a Window's guy). To test if your server supports SSI then, you can run a simple test, by inserting the below code inside a webpage, and saving the page with a .shtml extension (the most common extension configured to parse SSI by default):
PHP and ASP are Server Side Scripting Languages which require the server process the commands.
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