Tuesday
May192009
10 Great Hosting Questions for IT Staff

If you can get answers from your IT Staff to these 13 questions, you will save yourself a lot of time and maybe a few dollars. The questions are:
- Does your company have the IT staff / resources to remotely administer a server or managed hosting environment?
- What would this system we are discussing be used for? What is the application?
- What type of system architecture do you have in mind (web/app/db server; load balancing; private network)?
- What are your security requirements?
- What is the peak number of concurrent sessions that you anticipate for this system?
- What are your anticipated peak throughput requirements?
- What is the anticipated monthly transfer usage?
- What applications will you install on each server?
- What operating system would you need on each server?
- What are your requirements for CPU, RAM & HD (capacity & RAID configuration) for each server?
- Do you require backups on each server? Daily or Weekly?
- What is your timeline for implementing and moving forward?
- What is your budget for this project?
