ANST - On-line Ansteorra : The Next Generation...
j'lynn yeates
jyeates at realtime.net
Mon Apr 26 11:18:36 PDT 1999
On 26 Apr 99, at 11:49, Pug Bainter wrote:
> Good Morning one and all,
>
> It has come time for the Kingdom of Ansteorra to step forward into the
> Electronic Age again. I am asking for all of your help in this.
....
centralization may / may not be a good things .... but i definitely vote NO at
this time on the purchase of hardware for this cause ...
while on the surface this seems a good idea, i have seen many instances of the
down sides of buying, maintaining, repairing, upgrading hardware to host a web
site ... while it might be more convenient to maintain, it will ultimately
cost far more than simply buying a "box" up front.
how about a business-level long range comparison - standard three years - of
the total costs of ownership (hardware aquisition, software aquisition, hw/sw
upgrades, hw repairs, communications links / access equipment, utilities,
facilities, etc ...) verses hosting the site virtually on someone elses (a
stable, secure, commercial) site - as is the incresaing norm in the business
world.
the web-site is after all about information and content ... it can just as well
be maintained on a providers hardware than ours stashed in someone bedroom or
on a providers rack ...usually at far less expense and with a much higher level
of performance and reliability.
name of the game here is "outsourcing" folks ....
'wolf
... When we hunt, we all function with one mind
... - Boingo, Pedestrian Wolves
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