Saturday, December 19, 2009

Hosting

Hosting vs In-House

http://www.desaware.com/support/faq/licensing/hosting.aspx

Hosting services and hosted dedicated machines generally provide a higher level of both security and reliability than most businesses (especially small businesses) can achieve in-house. Nevertheless you should take precautions. Hosting services do experience disasters and financial problems (as do any business).

  • Keep frequent local backups of your hosted database.
  • Do not use a fixed IP address or subweb of the hosted domain. Better to use a subdomain of a domain name that you own and set up your DNS to direct to your hosted IP. This allows you to redirect license activations to any machine.
  • Buy your domain name from a domain registrar, not a hosting service, and be sure you own the domain name.

 

Exchange Hosts

http://www.vpsland.com/plans.html
http://www.intermedia.net/  + other hosting, good help.

Microsoft Hosting Partners

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