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 -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.