Maintaining server is costly option
Greatest degree of control
Requires expertise to set up
Load balancing: transfer data from busy server to less busy server
Mirrors: servers with duplicated content
Pure-play: entire business online
Brick-and-mortar: owns physical stores
Web hosting: Web server managing service
Shared hosting: store client Web site on same physical server as other clients
Virtual private hosting: simulate single server
Dedicated hosting: own entire physical server
Co-location: server co-located with other clients and host
