Chapter 9: Web Site and Server Maintenance

Choosing to Run Your Own Server on Your Premises

Here are reasons why you might want to run your own server:

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  You want to do sophisticated animations or implement “front end” Web connections with existing databases, and your service provider can’t offer services as efficiently or effectively as you could on-premises.
  
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  You have a very large amount of data – so much that it is impractical to move the data to the off-premises server.
  
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  You already have an Internet infrastructure in place – for instance, a high-speed link to the greater Internet – and you want to take advantage of that existing infrastructure.
  
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  You feel it is inevitable that you will learn server technology, and now is as good a time as any.