On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, John Paul Q. Tomas wrote:
> Good Day to all!
>
> - Lately my boss and I are discussing issues regarding web hosting
> because he feels that our web site / email are not that fast enough to
> be viewed / accessed from the outside.
> - Currently we have a DNS Server on the campus. - www.lsgh.edu.ph
>
Why? What sort of connection do you have to the outside world? How big
is your leased line? Who's your upstream provider?
> - So my questions are: 1. Is web hosting the ultimate solution for
> that kind of problem? I dont really have an idea but, is it expensive?
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> 2. Internally, can we make some adjustments on our server just to
> address the problem?
Yes, buy yourself more bandwidth :)
In all probability, this will be far, far more expensive than hosting your
website.
> 3. May I know some PROs and CONs of having out website hosted?
>
Your pro's:
a. You get more, much much more bandwidth than you would otherwise be able
to pay for available for people who wish to see your site.
b. The actual business of running the server is outsourced to a third
party, so you need not worry about the technical details too much.
Your con's:
a. Very few hosting services will provide you with CGI access (we will
though :) unless your server is colocated, so your website may be limited
to static content only.
b. It's much more cumbersome to be periodically uploading pages to the
hosting server from somewhere else than it is to just connect to a server
on your local network and edit your pages and/or upload them there.
A few more may apply...these are all I can think of at the moment.
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