Re: [PCTECH] Web site time required

[Ken Sims <mdrg5003@xxxxxxxxx>]

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
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