[IWE] Re: iwethey?

[Andrew Grygus]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:41:37 -0800, Ben Tilly wrote:

>If this was Scott's business, I'm sure he would have been working on
>it full time.  And I'm sure that his wife would be supportive of his
>working on it because she wants him to make that money.  As things
>stand, however, it is far lower on his priority list than any
>business.
>
>Plus a sensible business that was self-hosting would devote resources
>to this that Scott has not.  Resources like a backup system and
>immediately available replacement hardware.
>
>(Disclaimer, every company that I've worked for has successsively
>self-hosted themselves.  And successfully dealt with all sorts of
>minor and major hardware disasters.)

None of my clients can devote the staffing you imply, and only 
a few have room and funding for backup servers and the like. 
Simple IT matters are handled part-time by semi-skilled people 
and anything complex is outsourced (to me). 

In this sort of situation, typical of at least 75% of businesses in 
the U.S., any problem with the Web server becomes exactly 
what IWeThey is experiencing. Server issues immediately 
become personal issues. 

For larger, technically oriented companies such as I suspect 
you have worked for, self hosting may indeed be feasable. 
I do not have any clients like that and not one has a full time 
IT person, not even those with over 100 employees on the 
payroll have an IT person. Again, this is the situation with 
the great majority of businesses.

Andrew Grygus