Administering an ISP Installation

Hosting Applications

ISPs often establish preproduction sites (or staging servers) to test customer applications before they are hosted on the production site. (For more information about staging servers, see Replicating through Content Deployment.) During this test phase, you can save resources by using one server to host multiple customer test sites.

ISPs hosting Web-based applications should establish guidelines for those who are writing them. For example, it is not good to write applications that can be run only in process, since those that can be run out of process are safer for the installation as a whole.