From: "Gary Britt" 

I didn't say it necessarily would.  Just that if you don't have or want to
spend the money for dedicated full-time people to handle these kinds of
things, stay on top of everything security wise, and handle all the
associated hardware costs, then it is far more likely that with a little
research you could find the few firms who do have quality experts and would
do a better job at keeping a secure server going than some part-timer
inside the company could do.

You said it yourself.  You've been doing it for 12 years and are still
learning.  Some people don't have 12 years to wait until they are ready to
put up their website.

What's the difference between a form letter from the hosting company, and a
form email from your in-house part-time server security guy saying the same
thing.

Gary

"Geo"  wrote in message
news:4377afa3$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
> news:437774a4{at}w3.nls.net...
> > 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??
>
> ROFL!! What makes you think that using some rent-a-server is going to mean
> you are secure? Where is Glenn Meadows? Hey Glenn, show them that form
> letter you got for when a hosted server gets rooted. I mean it's bad
enough
> if a server gets rooted but to have a form letter for it? And they do, I
> can't believe how many places just email clients and tell them the server
> was rooted please reload your site..
>
> Geo.
>
>

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