Host at ISP versus In-house Hosting of Site

Host the site at Internet Service Provider (ISP) specialized in Electronic Commerce is recommended. Possible places to host the site are:
  • UUNET
  • BBN Planet
  • CommerceWave
  • Best Communications

    •  Reasons to host at an experienced Internet Service Provider
  • Lower costs with ISP than in-house for both network, equipment, and management. Costs and bandwidth are shared by many users.

  • Technology is changing very rapidly. Difficult to stay up-to-date when in-house.

  • 24 hour x 7 day service at ISP

  • Security, backup systems, firewalls and other resources provided by ISP

  • Good to keep web server away from company internal network to minimize break-ins

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