Building Portals, Intranets, and Corporate Web Sites Using Microsoft Servers
by James J. Townsend, Dmitri Riz, Deon Schaffer
Hosting for Scalability
Once you have completed your requirements analysis, functional requirements, network architecture, application architecture, server architecture, and capacity planning, you may come to an unhappy conclusion. Your expectations for performance might exceed your ability to buy, configure, and maintain the necessary server farm. Luckily, you have another option: turn to a managed services company to host all or part of your portal.
Managed services offer compelling advantages for providing high-scale portal solutions. You can take advantage of the huge investments made by hosting companies in bandwidth, physical infrastructure, redundancy, disaster planning, maintenance, and monitoring of servers. Rather than make your own ...
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