From: "Gary Britt" 

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

"Randall Parker"

wrote in message news:437787b7$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Gary,
>
> I've been thinking along similar lines. It is not my call to make. But I'm
thinking
> about proposing it.
>
> Any suggestions on good dedicated server providers?
>
> Gary Britt wrote:
> > Why don't you just outsource the server setup/security stuff by using a
> > dedicated server or virtual dedicated server from a good hosting
company.
> > Its so cheap these days its almost not worth trying to learn to roll
your
> > own??
> >
> > Gary

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