Product Description
Arms IT professionals with a complete blueprint for developing successful Web hosting strategies
Written by a consultant who helped develop the Web hosting strategies at many of today’s top e-commerce vendors, this book fills in IT professionals on the full range of services available. The book provides decision-makers with criteria checklists and other useful tools they need for determining what they need, why they need it, how to find it, and how to evaluate and manage it. Doug Kaye provides a clear, complete roadmap for building an effective Web hosting strategy, and offers practical advice and answers to critical questions. The book covers important topics, including the real cost of bandwidth, domai… More >>
Strategies for Web Hosting and Managed Services
Don’t get me wrong…this is a well written, insightful book.
It is however a roadmap for a prospective outsourcing customer
rather than a design guide for those of us in the hosting industry.
Inversely, it teaches our industry what not to do, but as an industry engineer, I was hoping to find a best technical practices and design guide rather than a product qualification matrix with a lot of text around it. Rating: 2 / 5
I think this is very good book about hosting and managed services. The author knows very detail about things.
I just hope, he make the second edition, because it’s 2002 book. Many things have been change or update now. Like there is a VPS (Virtual Private Server), and there are a file hosting business (like rapidshare, megaupload, etc), a game hosting (games is one of the biggest industry who use internet connection now), and some of link in the appendix (resources) have not working / have been change now.
Rating: 5 / 5
not a hands on book. this is rather a guide to what to look for in web hosting architectures and things to consider whether you are looking at colocation or full outsourcing this will give you the education you need to make the right decisions. again, this will not tell you how to configure a load balancer or a redundant infrastructure, but it will explain common approaches to hosting problems and how to resolve them and general best practices in architecture, planning, selection. I’ve seen many of these books and this is the best. Rating: 5 / 5
This is a well-written, no-nonsense book that gets right to the point. An excellent guidebook to building a web-hosting strategy. Lots of information with available updates. Gets to the point – ideal for executives and other IT decision-makers. Rating: 5 / 5
Doug Kaye’s the expert when it comes to architecting strategies for web hosting services.
This book captures his best advice on the subject — learned through his experiences with several actual projects and companies. Doug’s a straight shooter — and he takes that same direct approach in this book.
One of my favorite chapters in the book is “The Dark Side of Outsourcing” — where he tells you everything that can go wrong — so you’re prepared to avoid all of those things.
If you’re looking for a ‘how to think’ approach to the problem of outsourcing your hosting, this book is the place to start! Rating: 5 / 5