Re: hosting website and email

At 04:59 PM 8/15/01 -0700, Moe Rubenzahl wrote:
>>Let me first warn you that I'm not a programmer or server admin ...
>>design/maintain the company's website which is currently hosted on our ISP's
>>unix server running Sun Solaris. ...
>>bring our email/website etc. in-house and host it on a server of our own
>...
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I would take an approach that combines most of the good advice you have 
been given here. Hire a consultant/integrator recommended by someone you 
trust to set it up for you and ease your way into it - once it has been set 
up properly. Once things are running smoothly, try doing little things 
yourself, but not before doing the reading, RTFM, hang out on some quality 
mailing lists - oh, yeah, you're doing that already :).

We have some good programmers in-house, but none of them are experienced 
sys-admin.s, even though they could code circles around most people. I 
wouldn't let them touch the setup of our web servers until they had put in 
the time, become aware of the issues, the security holes, the performance 
hogs, etc. I have been lurking on this list for over four years, but I am 
not a sys-admin. - I just hire them :).

Oh yes, and use *nix :>.

Cheers

Kevin Jackson

p.s. please note the new phone number.
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Biz-Zone Internet Group Inc.
Web developers, publishers and consultants.
http://www.biz-zone.com/ - Mailto:kevin(at)biz-zone.com
Phone: (905)640-8441 - Fax: (905)640-0934

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