Re: Setting up an In-house server

by Moe Rubenzahl <moe(at)maxim-ic.com>

Date:	Mon, 22 May 2000 09:12:26 -0700
To:	"Lisa McSparrin" <webmaster(at)gabd.com>, <hwg-servers-digest(at)mail.hwg.org>
References:	gabd
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>  > an in-house web server.
>  > ...hosting web site for my design customer....

Setting up a web server is not difficult but may not be a good idea.

If you are talking about an intranet or a prototyping site, by all 
means do so. You need an always-on Internet connection (e.g. DSL). 
There are free, near-free, and commercial web server software 
packages for all platforms and for this kind of light usage, any 
would work fine and be easy enough to manage.

If you are talking about a real, public site you would run for your 
clients, then it's not a great idea because you have an obligation to 
provide reliability, performance, and possibly server-side features 
like forms, performance monitoring, hit statistics, maybe Flash or 
video -- etc. You have to worry about power failure, sudden upsurges 
in site popularity, regular maintenance, backup..........

That's what hosting companies are for. At $10 a month, it probably 
does not make sense for you to play Internet service provider.

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