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Get the Most of a Web Host
August 23, 1999 |
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Executive Summary Web-Site Hosting Services Web sites are rapidly making the leap to become true vehicles of e-commerce. Corporations are beginning to leverage Internet technologies, raising them into high-profile, complex projects with intense technical demands. For many organizations, it makes less sense to host a site in-house than to choose a top-notch Web site host that can help them attain their e-commerce goals most quickly. To assess the landscape, we created a Web hosting RFP around a fictitious multimillion-dollar retailer we dubbed Widgets R Us. Our mock company was eager to tap the power of the Internet to extend far beyond its regional customer base. The retailer's goal is to build an online information hub and catalog showroom to appeal to the do-it-yourself crowd. Seven of the 24 companies we invited to participate sent in a formal response to our RFP. The contenders were AT&T, Cable & Wireless, Concentric Network Corp., Frontier Communications, GTE Internetworking, Sprint and Verio.
With plenty of imaginary dough to spend and an ambitious vision of our e-commerce foray, we favored a high-end, pricey solution. We gave GTE Internetworking the nod because it submitted a very detailed proposal that gave us confidence it would be a strong e-commerce partner. From bandwidth to consulting to security, we felt GTE showed us it has its act together.
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