[curtiss]

We are hosting locally. We had an issue about a month or so ago where we lost a lot of important documents because our file server went down. It was down for almost an entire week, and when it was restored, it was restored from an old backup. Thankfully it was a file server and not the web or intranet server, but the possibility of our web server going down became all too real at that point.

Since I have no control over the personnel in the networking/server department, the only thing I can do to try to ensure nothing like that ever happens with the web server is to get the hardware set up properly to avoid problems like that. Being a college, we are the type of organization that will need to communicate through our web site in the event of a catastrophe. If, God forbid, the campus were to be blown up, or the server room were to burn to the ground, we would need to be able to communicate our crisis management plan through our web site.

I have considered recommending that we go with a remote, hosted server altogether, but, once again, at that point, I would have absolutely no control over how our information was protected and safeguarded.