Elements and Performance Criteria
- Select ISP
- Review comparable characteristics of a range of hosting services
- Review client usage and ensure that email and mailing list services are flexible enough to meet current and future business needs
- Review support service standards to ensure they meet business needs
- Ensure ISP hosting service has sufficient data capacity to cover partial outages
- Determine availability of security technologies
- Determine availability of scripting languages
- Evaluate optional server applications for advanced web business functions
- Confirm client selection criteria and select ISP hosting service that best matches the criteria
- Ensure guarantee of permanent online presence
- Ensure that web host meets technical requirements
- Take action to ensure that operating system supports the preferred business development software, applications, extensions and databases
- Establish that web-host servers support dynamic websites using the preferred business technologies
- Establish that web host provides current and future disk space requirements
- Establish that site-analysis reports are available and flexible enough to meet business needs
- Establish that security systems and payment technologies meet business and customer expectations and requirements
- Benchmark performance and test against specified criteria