Your friend Faye Borthick wants to set up a small Web site devoted to gardening. She believes her many years of experience in gardening give her an understanding of the kinds of gardening tools, fertilizers, soil amendment products, herbicides, pesticides, and plants that will appeal to the serious gardener. Right now Faye doesn’t want to sell anything. She merely wants to display pages of plant photography, write and store short how-to papers for novice gardeners, and provide links to other gardening tips and traps on the Web. She wants your advice on whether to self-host the Web site or use an ISP (or CSP) to start her endeavor. Use The List or the Top Hosts sites to locate information on the cost of using a service provider to host a Web site. Then, estimate what a small Web site might cost in terms of the minimal configuration of hardware and software. Estimate the design and development costs and the annual maintenance costs. Then, select one of the Web server programs. Electronic Commerce, Fourth Edition 20 Estimate the cost of a Web connection. Write a 400-word summary of everything you think Faye will need to know to use either of the two options (she builds it or she uses a service provider) for creating her site. Answers will vary, but should consider the following: ? Startup costs ? Initial leasing costs ? Monthly maintenance costs ? Employee costs of development vs. ISP/CSP site creation ? Time (the time it takes to set up the site for both options.
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For self hosting of website
She should have a dedicated Internet connection (so that her website will be available 24*7).
She should have knowledge on DNS, IP addressing, and HTTP.
She should buy a static IP address.
Static IP address will helpherUse remote access (she canaccess her computer anywhere in the world),
Run her own website (Installing web server software on PC will allow to set up her own website)
Receive emails direct to her PC,Run an FTP server (efficient and reliable way to transfer data from one computer to another)
Best-selling Static IP packages
O2 BE Eclipse Internet
Monthly charge / £7.502 Months Free
Broadband
/ £7.50 / £12.21
Speed (up to) / 8.2Mb / 8.2Mb / 24Mb
Upload speed / 1Mb / 1Mb / 1Mb
Usage limit / Unlimited / 40GB / 2GB
IP Addressing / A dynamic IP address is included as standard however a static IP is available for £4.89 a month. / This package includes 1 static IP address / This package includes static IP addresses
Contract length / 12months / 12months / 12months
1st year cost / £75.00 / £90.00 / £207.49
For static publication of pages she needs to have knowledge on HTML,CSS and javascript.But this will not help her in a long run.
For dynamic pages to Web server software will also vary.she can use various technologies for technologies for developing her website.
Server side technologies that she can make use of ---Java(needs an Apache Tomcat server),Dotnet(needs an IIS server).she can also make use of opensource freely available PHP.
Similarly for database she can make use of Oracle,MSsql server .she can also make use of MySql which is freely available.
She also need to hire some designers for making her site look really attractive(gallery to display the plant photograps).
The main disadvantage of Self hosting is
- Hacker risk - Having the same IP address all the time means that once hackers have her number they can keep on attacking.
- Keeping your connection running–The PC should be kept on everytime and care should be taken so that the internet connection doesnot get dissconnected all time
service provider
If she will use service provided by service provider she will not face any difficulty in knowing the internal
details like DNS,IP redirecting etc
Also she can get support from the service providers if she faces some difficulties.
Also the service providers will take care of the security of their servers.
There are also free web builders who will help her building.They also have predefined templates that she can make use of.
Well the charge of service providers depends upon the technology she wants to use for building her website,storage space,database.
The basic cost a java domain with 1 domain ,10 subdomains,1000 MB and some extra features will generally cost her near about $10 per month .The similar will be the cost for hosting .Net domain
A php domain with Mysql database may varry starting from $4.
The disadvantages she has if she uses a domain of a hosting company are
1.Bandwith and storage space is limited.
2.There is a chance that the webhosting company may close at anytime.
If she really wants to carry on her gardening business and to make some profit out of it I will definetly ask her to go for self hosting(having her own satic ip).By this she will not have any bandwidth limitation .
She can also earn selling her products in her website and also can be independent.she can hire some developers and designers to help her building her website and adding secure features.
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You created a Web site for International Paper Products and Pulp, complete with links to other pages on your site and to pages on the Internet. Bob Pardee your supervisor wants you to check periodically that the links on the corporate site are still valid. Instead of purchasing and installing a link-checking program, you decide to investigate online link checkers (Web sites allow you to enter a Web site?s root or home address and then check all the links that emanate from that site). Use W3C Link Check or Elsop LinkScan Quick Check to check the links on any site of your choice. Be patient. The program can take some time to complete its work ? especially on a Web page that has a large number of links.
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LinkScan is a highly scalable link checking and website management tool used by major organizations around the world. It has the ability to run a real-time link validation and HTML syntax checks on a single document.
Link checking URL:
You may select from the following options:
Top of Form
Display Broken and Suspect Links—selecting this will allow you to display the broken and suspect link that your webpage contains.
Display Full HTML Source Code—selecting this will display all the html code in your webpage which includes html tags and controls.
Display Good Links in Addition to Errors-selecting this will display all good links as well as it will display an error if not found.
Like if a link is not found it will display
- Error: 404 Not Found sprocess.aspx
If the link exists it will display
- No Error: 200 URL join_process.php
You can also know the details of the error or warning from the link
In Enter URL to Check: you have to enter the URL of your website (International Paper Products and Pulp).
Bottom of Form
W3C Link Check
URL
Enter the address (URL) of a document that you would like to check:
In the above textbox you have to enter the URL of the website or a webpage.
More Options
Summary only
Hide redirects: all for directories only
Don't send the Accept-Language header
Don't send the Referer header
Save options in a cookie
Selecting the above options will allow you to
1. Show only the summary (warnings, errors if any and in which line you have the error or warning in your webpage or website.)
2. Hide for either all the redirects from your website or redirect between directories
3. By doing so you will give preference to all language equally.
4. By selecting so refer header like response time will not be send
5. Save your preference. So that the next time you want to check the options that you enabled earlier will appear.