[AccessD] Off-topic - Web Hosting - Basic Questions

Brad Marks BradM at blackforestltd.com
Thu Jan 6 08:01:10 CST 2011


Jim,

Thanks for your insights.

We have kicked around the idea of hosting the website ourselves but have not been able to cost justify it yet.  We have no experience in this realm so there  would be a fairly large learning curve.   

Brad 

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com on behalf of Jim Lawrence
Sent: Wed 1/5/2011 10:00 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Off-topic - Web Hosting - Basic Questions
 
I have some experience with hosting various clients' site, as a development
area. I use IIS, (I am not even sure of the current version), with a DNS
server/service, SQL Server 2005, on a development Servers 2003/2008 and it
seemed rather straight-forward but the whole process did evolve over a
period of time. 

My IIS server currently supports ASP, ASP.Net and PHP. ...and you can add
Ruby, Perl, JSP and of course Python all at no extra cost.

Hosting, yourself would allow you the best control. The expense would be
from the cost of any upgrade to your internet connection speed, maybe a new
server, if you do not have one...hardware and software (Server2008) and of
course a SQL Server license. If the volume is not too high there are a
number of 'cloud' options...but I have not even looked into it...yet.

HTH
Jim



-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Brad Marks
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 1:59 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: [AccessD] Off-topic - Web Hosting - Basic Questions

I work for a small firm that has a website that is used by customers to
place orders (About 30-40 orders per day).  The orders are stored in SQL
Server.  Both the website and the SQL Server order database are hosted
by another firm.  Each day, orders are pulled from the website's SQL
Server database and processed internally.  

The internal processing is done with Access 2007 in conjunction with a
purchased accounting package.   

We have had a number of difficulties with our current web hosting firm
and we are probably going to switch to a new hosting firm.

I have been asked to gather some information to help management make
decisions regarding this switch.

What is a ballpark range of the monthly price tag for a hosting firm to
charge for hosting our website (with SQL Server)?

Is it best to go with a local hosting firm or a national one (we are
located in the US)?

Any feedback on hosting firms (positive and negative)?

There has been a small amount of discussion on the idea of hosting the
website ourselves.  We have no experience in this realm.  Are there any
well written documents on the web that explain the advantages and
disadvantages of doing this.

Thanks in advance for your ideas and insights.

Brad

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