On 7/6/06, Chester Friesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have a 1.5-3.0 Mbps DSL connection, running around 2.8-2.9 Mbps. The site is low traffic, maybe 4-10 email accounts. I appreciate all the input, thanks.
I've been working with a business associate for a couple of years who hosts web sites and email for clients, mostly small "postcard" type sites and handles all the hassles of domain registration, keeping the sites running, power backups (UPS and generator), heating, cooling, offsite backups, fail-over site in another state, etc. His business has grown to the point where he is a full time hostmaster and he doesn't get to do as much of the web design he enjoyed. But the big problem came when he tried to take the weekend off. No sooner had he packed the wife and kids into the car and headed for the airport than his email system lost its mind. A DNS resolution issue was causing it to cease to deliver mail to any of his 300+ hosted sites. His standby admin was in over his head. The backup admin was baffled. It took most of the day and a couple frantic cellphone calls from the airport waiting lounge, the arrival lounge and the destination hotel before he was able to locate someone with sufficient experience to diagnose and fix the problem and connect them with the folks with secure access to the site. Meanwhile, many clients spent the day without email, which has transformed from a minor inconvenience to a showstopper for some companies. My preference is to leave it to the professionals. While I host my own sites for the education, convenience and humbling learning experiences, I don't generate my own electricity or purify my own water; I leave that to professionals who understand how to engineer facilities that deliver 99.9999% of the time. I'd suggest you weigh the benefits and risks of web and (especially) mail hosting and determine how robust an engineering plant and guarantee you want to provide. There are sites that provide hosted mail service and will even let you private brand it (with a reasonable markup, of course) and that would be my preference. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
