Would NOF recommend the web site to be hosted on its own dedicated server or on a shared server? What are the things I should bear in mind to take such a decision?
The issues to be considered in making this decision relate to performance, security and potential conflicts between software applications: Performance – with a shared server, projects will need to ensure that the performance of their service is not impacted by the other things the server is doing. Peak access times (of both the project’s service and the other services on the shared machine) need to be considered. Projects need to think about the performance of the server itself, as well as available network bandwidth to the machine. Security – as a general rule, the more services offered by a machine, the harder it is to make that machine secure. Projects should ensure that any machine they use is operated in a secure manner. Conflicts – on a shared server there are more likely to be software conflicts, e.g. to run package X, package Y needs to be installed, but this conflicts with package Z that is already installed for some other service. There are also issues associated with hosting
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