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Hi Jeff -
If an outside firm hosts it, does that save a lot of time? If we host it
ourselves, does it become a fulltime job just to keep it up and fresh?
You seem to be confused about hosting it versus maintaining the contents.
Hosting is where the website actually resides. It could be on your i5, on
some other system at your location, or at some other location.
The design and maintenance of the contents is a separate issue. There is
some inter-relation if the designers want to use functionality that the
hosting software may not support.
I strongly suggest that you keep the hosting and the contents with separate
companies unless the hosting is in-house. And in any case, the master copy
of the website should be in-house, somewhere other than on the host server.
You want to be in the position where if you use an external host and they
go out of business or lose your stuff, or if you host internally and the
server goes poof, you still have your master copy.
Likewise, you want to be in the position where if you part ways with the
design/maintenance company, they have no control over your site in any way.
--
Ken
http://www.ke9nr.net/
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