There's a difference between the kind of services Yahoo offers and those of
your typical full-service Web host.

That is, Yahoo has tried to attract users who don't want to know how to set
up a server, but who want to try selling things online, or have a personal
web page, or have a mailing list. Many yahoo mail users don't even have
regular Internet accounts and just use the web-based mail from public
machines in libraries, etc.

This is a whole other ball of wax compared to a full service Web host, who
is in charge of keeping the servers running and the pipes connected. Even as
DSL and broadband makes it theoretically feasible to host one's own site, we
still don't recommend it to our clients because a web server can involve a
lot of care and feeding, hardware and software upgrades, and if you are
anything but a tiny organization, you can easily get more traffic than your
infrastructure can handle (especially if you do something newsworthy that
attracts a burst of attention).

The day may well come when we all have such high-speed connections and
high-horsepower workstations that everyone can run their own servers. But we
don't think that day is here yet.

We would be interested if others have different views, though.


On 3/23/02 1:30 PM, "Mike Csontos" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> It is becoming obvious that website hosting is not a big moneymaker. How many
> museums and similar institutions now have their own web servers and host
> their own sites? I would be interested in the practicality and costs of this.
> It certainly would give more control and perhaps the technology is becoming
> consumerized enough to be handled by museum staff.
>

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