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Internet Digital Marketing Consultant at Independant Consultant
15 July 2007 09:36am
Hi,
could any one recommend a good project plan template for hosting?, going from vendor selection to live.
best regards,
Duncan Balmbra.
Technical Project Manager (MBA, MBCS, CITP, CEng) at Naxtech.com
17 July 2007 19:40pm
I'm not sure what you mean by "project plan template for hosting". Please elaborate.
Denis
Internet Digital Marketing Consultant at Independant Consultant
19 July 2007 06:21am
Hi,
I am trying to get an understanding of the tasks that are going to be involved in either installing our own servers into a hosting environment or go for a complete outsource solution.
An overall task summary would be very advantageous in doing this.
Duncan.
Director at Watson Hall Ltd
21 July 2007 12:41pm
Duncan
The steps should be:
- create a hosting assessment team (this might be the existing project team, but could include others)
- define the requirements (capacity, architecture, hours of operation, security, uptime, remote access, backups, software installed)
- gather data on the options (financial, availability, service level agreements, locations, support, etc)
- review the options taking into account costs and risks, over the lifetime of the project (development, configuration, operation and disposal)
- implement the decision
- review regularly
Ensure that you look at issues like:- bandwidth required (typical, and peaks and the durations of these)
- server capability
- requirements for failover, load balancing, disaster recovery
- configuration costs as well as annual costs and extra costs for support
- purchase vs. leasing
- regulatory or legal requirements that may affect your decisions
- 24 hour support
- service level agreements (read the exclusions, what you are responsible for, and how uptime is calculated)
- what you will do if the website is unavailable
- responsibilities
RegardsColin Watson
Technical Director
Watson Hall Ltd Website security
Internet Digital Marketing Consultant at Independant Consultant
24 July 2007 08:30am
Many thanks - Colin. A great help.
Duncan
Director at Pink Digital Ltd
25 July 2007 06:23am
If you have to go through this list of things to plan your hosting I think you would be best to approach a company like RackSpace who will provide all that information.
Dont use them myself, but I have heard good things about them.