RE: Benifits of ASP CMS Hosted

         Sure, if they have enough staff who know web administration using 
open source tools such as Apache, Tomcat, and MySQL / PostgreSQL. But many 
small businesses and trade associations do NOT. They have an IT staff that 
consists of one or two MCSE's (morons) who know nothing more than MS IIS, a 
notoriously insecure web server, and MS SQL Server, whose security record 
is almost as blemished as that of IIS. Furthermore, neither IIS nor SQL 
Server runs on Linux or FreeBSD, which are _much_ more secure than f_cking 
MS Windows.


[Dominic Cronin] Sheesh - take it to alt.linux.advocacy! You can secure an
MS system; you can fail to secure whatever variety of LAMP++ you favour. If
this is an argument about to-host-or-not-to-host, then of course security is
an issue, the argument being that you can pay your hosting provider to
provide a secured turnkey solution, which includes employing appropriately
qualified staff, whatever the platform.