Comments on: Strategies for Web Hosting and Managed Services

By: Scott Loftesness

Scott Loftesness — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:59:00 +0000

Doug Kaye’s the expert when it comes to architecting strategies for web hosting services. This book captures his best advice on the subject — learned through his experiences with several actual projects and companies. Doug’s a straight shooter — and he takes that same direct approach in this book. One of my favorite chapters in the book is “The Dark Side of Outsourcing” — where he tells you everything that can go incorrect — so you’re prepared to avoid all of those things. If you’re looking for a ‘how to reckon’ approach to the problem of outsourcing your hosting, this book is the place to start!
Rating: 5 / 5

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:05:48 +0000

This is a well-written, no-nonsense book that gets right to the point. An brilliant guidebook to building a web-hosting strategy. Lots of information with available updates. Gets to the point – ideal for executives and other IT choice-makers.
Rating: 5 / 5

By: Alex Szczepaniak

Alex Szczepaniak — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:18:33 +0000

not a hands on book. this is rather a guide to what to look for in web hosting architectures and things to consider whether you are looking at colocation or full outsourcing this will give you the education you need to make the right decisions. again, this will not tell you how to configure a load balancer or a redundant infrastructure, but it will clarify common approaches to hosting problems and how to resolve them and general best practices in architecture, plotting, selection. I’ve seen many of these books and this is the best.
Rating: 5 / 5

By: Mico Wendy

Mico Wendy — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:24:48 +0000

I reckon this is very excellent book about hosting and managed services. The author knows very detail about things.

I just hope, he make the second edition, because it’s 2002 book. Many things have been change or update now. Like there is a VPS (Virtual Private Server), and there are a file hosting business (like rapidshare, megaupload, etc), a game hosting (games is one of the largest industry who use internet connection now), and some of link in the appendix (resources) have not working / have been change now.

Rating: 5 / 5

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:35:43 +0000

Don’t get me incorrect. . . this is a well written, insightful book. It is but a roadmap for a prospective outsourcing customerrather than a design guide for those of us in the hosting industry. Inversely, it teaches our industry what not to do, but as an industry engineer, I was hoping to find a best technical practices and design guide rather than a product qualification matrix with a lot of text around it.
Rating: 2 / 5