Pym's Technology Lawyers
Pym's Technology Lawyers

Hosting Business

INTRODUCTION

Pym’s Technology Lawyers is pleased to provide information in respect of hosting services for visitors to the AIIA.biz website.  This section provides information in respect of hosting services which is available to all visitors to the AIIA.biz website.  There are additional sections of “Key Commercial Issues” and “Tips to Make Money” which are Premium Content and are only available to AIIA Members. 

Pym’s Technology Lawyers is also pleased to provide an Online Contract Template which can be used as a basis of creating an agreement for provision of hosting services.  


HOSTING SERVICES

ICT suppliers provide hosting services typically by providing a purpose-built location or at least a purpose fitted out area within a building in which the hardware, software, applications and network connections are located.  The premises are usually fitted with a number of physical security protections, including smoke detectors and sprinklers as well as a number of sophisticated security measures.

Sometimes the ICT supplier’s customer will supply its own hardware, software, database and applications and these will be hosted in the ICT supplier’s premises.

The ICT supplier can also provide the hardware, operating system software and sometimes the database and the networking equipment to connect the IT infrastructure to the network.  The ICT supplier often also provides access to a network between the hosting premises and the client’s site, usually through a third party telco.

Typically these two arrangements are referred to as hosting with customer-supplied equipment or hosting with supplier-provided equipment. 


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