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710 WEBHOSTING

Remote hands A service in which a Web-hosting vendor

will perform basic tasks such as cycling a server’s power

off and on.

Resellers A class of Web-hosting vendors that act as

sales agents for larger vendors.

Tenant vendors A class of Web-hosting vendors that

own their servers but colocate them in data centers

owned by other vendors.

CROSS REFERENCES

SeeApplication Service Providers (ASPs); Electronic Com-

merce and Electronic Business; Internet Literacy; Web Qual-

ity of Service; Web Services.

FURTHER READING

Burnham, C. (2001).Web hosting.Berkeley, CA: Osborne/

McGraw-Hill.

Kaye, D.The IT strategy letter. Weekly e-mail mailing list.

Subscriptions and archives available at http://www.

rds.com

Kaye, D. (2002).Strategies for Web hosting and managed

services. New York: Wiley.

Netcraft. Available at http://www.netcraft.com

Schneier, B. (2000).Secrets and lies: Digital security in a

networked world. New York: Wiley.

Stokeley Consulting. Available at http://www.stokely.com/

unix.sysadm.resources/

The Web host industry review. Available at http://www.

thewhir.com