Handbook of Information Security: Threats, Vulnerabilities, Prevention, Detection, and Management, Volume 3
by Hossein Bidgoli
Web Hosting
Doug Kaye, IT Conversations
Three Tiers of Shared-Server Vendors
Shared- and Dedicated-Server Security
Security and Web-Hosting Architectures
Data Recovery: An Important Defense
INTRODUCTION
Web-hosting services (like Web sites) come in all shapes and sizes. The chart in Figure 1 shows the distribution of annual Web-hosting budgets for U.S. businesses. The average budget is on the order of $1,200 to $1,800 per year ($100 to $150 per month), but note that more than 10% of all businesses surveyed spend more than $100,000 per year.
Because of this tremendous range of offerings, one might think that the services at one end of the spectrum are very different from those at the other end. In fact, these services are far more alike than they are different. For example, all Web sites, no matter how small or how large, require Web servers, domain name services, backup and recovery, and connections to the Internet. It would be nearly impossible to analyze as a single group this wide range of offerings that fall ...
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