RE: Web site time required

Maintaining the site is more about content development than hosting.  No
real difference from a content maintenance side.  The difference would
be on the administration side.  With the hosted solution, you probably
won't have daily tasks; just contract issues & the usual vendor
management.  Running it yourself, you'll have to ensure site
availability, do any config updates, etc.  That said, once a site is up
& running the daily web server admin tasks are trivial.  I don't
typically spend any time on our web servers unless there's a config
change to make.

IT in general should not be doing content management with the exception
of CGI coding and the applications that support the content.  The real
content should be provided & maintained by those responsible; i.e.
marketing.  You might want to check out some content management systems.

John A. Jones, CISSP
Americas Information Security Officer
Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc.
V: +1-630-455-2787  F: +1-312-601-1782
john.jones@xxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Crosby [mailto:jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 1:32 PM
To: 'PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users'
Subject: [PCTECH] Web site time required

My company is looking at doing a website.  Since I'm the whole IT
department, we're leaning to having an outside firm design and host it
initially.

I'm concerned about the amount of time it might take our personnel to
keep it 'fresh' so customers keep coming back.  My thought is that the
setup is just the beginning, it's just as much work to keep it up as get
it up (the web site I mean).

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?

Yes, I realize it's a loaded question and the answers will contain some
"it depends".

Thanks.

--
Jeff Crosby
Dilgard Frozen Foods, Inc.
P.O. Box 13369
Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
260-422-7531

The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily the opinion of my
company.  Unless I say so.



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