From: Randall Parker 

Gary,

Do you manage any servers? If so, how much time do you have to spend keeping them
security patched?

Gary Britt wrote:
> I'd love to give you a recommendation Randall, but I'm afraid I have limited
> experience with evaluating and choosing such firms for a larger or medium
> sized commercial enterprise.
>
> What I think I understand is this.  Why try to personally learn and then
> stay on top off, with current patches, settings, workarounds, etc etc. when
> there have got to be several good firms with lots of people more expert than
> anyone who doesn't do it full time like George to handle that part.  They
> can set up a real physical dedicated server or if you don't need that a
> dedicated virtual server; they have robust backup options so that if one
> physical server goes down it doesn't really affect the uptime of your
> virtual server, etc.
>
> It would definitely make sense to me, and likely would be a lot cheaper than
> dedicated in house personnel costs, benefits, etc.
>
> Just my opinion.
>
> Gary

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