In-house Hosting Options

[JStay at mediageneral.com]

The only reason I see to host it in-house is if you have enough servers
to justify the cost.  Once you get near needing a certain bandwidth it
starts to begin being worth hosting it in-house.  At Media General (We
are in Richmond, VA - I'm a PLUG'er wannabe) we have over 100 Linux
servers, similar number Windows servers, and perhaps 10-20 HPUX
machines.  As a media company we have to be sure we always have a strong
enough connection to stay up so we need A LOT of bandwidth.  Although I
am not the one who made the decision, nor do I know all the details (I
am a developer, not an admin), I have been told it is much cheaper for
us to host in-house due to our needs.  I imagine only with a couple
servers and low bandwidth it would be better to host out of house.  Just
my $.02.

-Jesse

> Eric Jensen wrote:
> 
> > Going to be launching a business management system and we 
> are going to 
> > host the web sites instead of distribute our code base.  
> This is where
> > my knowledge gets pretty sparse.   We would really like to 
> run our own 
> > servers from our location isntead of colocate.  I looked at 
> a few ISPs 
> > and what they offer for DSL lines with a static IP and have 
> not been 
> > impressed.  For $150-200 a month you can get a 384kb/s line 
> that is, 
> > according to them, perfect for web hosting.  That just doesn't make 
> > sense to me.  When most users now days have closer to 1.5mb DSL (at 
> > around $30-40 a month mind you) how could you support even 
> 10 hits at 
> > a time and not get complaints about it being too slow?  We were 
> > thinking of getting one line with a static IP and then a bunch of 
> > 1.5mb standard lines and merging them.  We think that will 
> work fine 
> > for download, but not upload since we would go out on a 
> different IP.
> > Seems like it would really screw up DNS, amongst other things I'm 
> > sure.  So what are our options if we want to keep the equipment 
> > in-house?  Am I missing something with these 384-ish DSL lines 
> > designed for small-medium businesses?
> >
> > Eric Jensen
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