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RFI: Managed Web Hosting

September 3, 2001
By Jon William Toigo

RFI: Vendor Responses

To see how managed hosting service providers can respond to requirements for security, availability and performance, Network Computing issued an RFI on behalf of a hypothetical company, Romao Vineyards. The request went out to 16 vendors representing a cross-section of the managed Web hosting service industry. We intentionally exaggerated our scenario, using both realistic and unrealistic requirements. Seven vendors submitted RFI responses, six of which are posted here.

The following documents were saved in Adobe PDF format:

Request for Information:

RFI from Romao Vineyards (19k)

Vendor Responses:

EDS (208k)

e^deltacom (1,405k)

Xand (202k)

Comdisco (666k)

CSC (398k)

Interliant (8,146k)

Please note that Exodus chose not to post its RFI response. Also, within each response, participating vendors were given the opportunity to remove proprietary information.