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Hi,
My two cents for your consideration,
Upload matters when you "upload" files to the server but when visitors go to
your web site, they are "downloading" contents from your web server, so
upload means nothing to them.
Hosting a serious web site is not a simple thing, and you have many things
to consider, from bandwidth, security, contents hosting and development
which also involving database if you are going to do some transactions, and
backup solutions for crisis management, just to name a few.
Outsource to a professional and reputable partner gives you at least the
following benefits, for example:
(1) Focus: IT is your tool (unless you are in the industry or hosting
business which then will be a different story) so leave it to professionals
and focus on your core business and achieve the best of it;
(2) Sharing cost: If you wish to have the world-class infrastructure by
yourself, you probably need to be a fortune 1000. But SME's can achieve so
by sharing cost with others using outsource partners;
(3) Reduce learning costs: Again, if you wish to have everything by
yourself, other than investments, you have to spend tremendous efforts
(transfer to $$$) on learning every piece of hardware, software, tool, and
when upgrades come out and also includes cost of "mistakes" which can be
very minor to anything of a disaster.
Having worked for many years in IT industry and still have many friends and
associates in the industry with abundant resources, the first decision that
I made when started my own business (not in IT industry) is to outsource the
entire IT operation to reputable service partners. Our major partners are
in Europe and customers are in Asia, and we have partners in UK, US, and
Australia helping us for the entire IT operating including E-business and
supply chain management. Among others, one benefit is why I still have time
to visit this and other newsgroups every now and then
But before you can outsource to external partners, you need to spend time
and efforts on understanding what exactly do you need and what the outcome
will be like. It's kind of like an architect who designs and knows the
blueprint of a building but outsource construction to external contractors.
Someone has to be the architect even it's a small building.
So I'd suggest you to take advises from those experts posted earlier and I
am just sharing my experience with you but not an expert.
If you for some strategic reasons must own your site, consult with an
external consultant or technical professional and let him/her to be your
architect.
Based on your questions, I assume IT is not your core competency (forgive me
if I am wrong), so you really want to have some real preofessional to assist
you. I do that all the time.
Hope this helps and good luck.
My two cents for your consideration,
Upload matters when you "upload" files to the server but when visitors go to
your web site, they are "downloading" contents from your web server, so
upload means nothing to them.
Hosting a serious web site is not a simple thing, and you have many things
to consider, from bandwidth, security, contents hosting and development
which also involving database if you are going to do some transactions, and
backup solutions for crisis management, just to name a few.
Outsource to a professional and reputable partner gives you at least the
following benefits, for example:
(1) Focus: IT is your tool (unless you are in the industry or hosting
business which then will be a different story) so leave it to professionals
and focus on your core business and achieve the best of it;
(2) Sharing cost: If you wish to have the world-class infrastructure by
yourself, you probably need to be a fortune 1000. But SME's can achieve so
by sharing cost with others using outsource partners;
(3) Reduce learning costs: Again, if you wish to have everything by
yourself, other than investments, you have to spend tremendous efforts
(transfer to $$$) on learning every piece of hardware, software, tool, and
when upgrades come out and also includes cost of "mistakes" which can be
very minor to anything of a disaster.
Having worked for many years in IT industry and still have many friends and
associates in the industry with abundant resources, the first decision that
I made when started my own business (not in IT industry) is to outsource the
entire IT operation to reputable service partners. Our major partners are
in Europe and customers are in Asia, and we have partners in UK, US, and
Australia helping us for the entire IT operating including E-business and
supply chain management. Among others, one benefit is why I still have time
to visit this and other newsgroups every now and then
But before you can outsource to external partners, you need to spend time
and efforts on understanding what exactly do you need and what the outcome
will be like. It's kind of like an architect who designs and knows the
blueprint of a building but outsource construction to external contractors.
Someone has to be the architect even it's a small building.
So I'd suggest you to take advises from those experts posted earlier and I
am just sharing my experience with you but not an expert.
If you for some strategic reasons must own your site, consult with an
external consultant or technical professional and let him/her to be your
architect.
Based on your questions, I assume IT is not your core competency (forgive me
if I am wrong), so you really want to have some real preofessional to assist
you. I do that all the time.
Hope this helps and good luck.