At 01:08 PM 11/30/99 , you wrote:
>"Leland V. Lammert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 1) Purchase an Apache like Stronghold (at $1K+ not an option for a small company).
>Completely legal in the US?
>Frankly, I find this baffling. I work for a small company (two people)
>and we bought well over 3K in computers and software last year. If
>you can afford computers, Internet service, and a web site, you
>should be able to fork over $1K for a web server.
Sorry, .. but the economics just don't work - even using your example, $3K of hardware
can host 50-100 sites, . . at, say, a net profit of $25/ea makes the payback about a
year. Spending $1K on an SSL server just doesn't make sense, .. unless you had a
specific project with requisite revenues.
Besides, .. for the past three years our hardware budget has been exactly $0 (we have
used recycled machines quite successfully to build servers for quite some time - one
of the main advantages with Unix; the only problem has been that power supply fan
bearings only last about five years of 24/7 <g>!).
> > Since it is not practical for a small company to deal directly with
> > RSA (or the like), our only option at the time seemed to be #2, as
> > the server was initially a 'test site'. We need to rebuild the
> > server in the near future, .. and I would be very interested in pros
> > and cons.
>You've missed at least one interesting option: use IIS on Windows. You
>get SSL with RSA for free.
That is not consistent with my information - when we priced IIS three years ago, MS
required a purchase of SITE SERVER (at $1K+) to get SSL capability. Have they changed
the terms? It is not my understanding that you could run SSL in plan IIS.
Lee
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