In over my head! Help with server info.

[Toddt]

Hi all,

I am in over my head and need some help. I work part time for a company with some of there smaller computer issues. When they heard that I did some websites (small static stuff) they wanted me to redo their sites. No problem there. But they are switch over to an in-house e-com site using MAS-200. Which I am to be involved in. We added a web server and will be hosting in-house.

My question is I don’t know a thing about this servers, our IT guys are doing that part, but what do I need to know/ask/request for the server? Do we need to add things like ASP, PHP, the IT guys want to keep it free of everything but what is needed for the MAS-200 part of things. But the boss would like to use the server to host some other smaller sites that would need to be more dynamic?

Any help to get me in the right track would help.

Also I am learning that I don’t know a thing about web sites and need some classes, what should I for in a class.

Thanks
Todd

[russell]

By, MAS-200, u mean the accounting/ERP package?

There are some systems that should run on dedicated servers:
- Accounting System
- Database Server
- Web Server

So sounds like they need at least three servers. Now if it is a windows server, then IIS is already installed and you will want to look into .Net or ASP. If it is a Unix flavor you will want to make sure Apache is on it and look into PHP. There are other choices as well, but these are going to be most common and easiest/cheapest.

Most importantly, you are going to need to get used to database programming and interacting with a database via your web applications. You will need to know what they have, or are going to do, as far as database platform.

[Toddt]

~By, MAS-200, u mean the accounting/ERP package?

Yes.

The database is on it's own server, and we just added a web server.

It is a windows server. So I'll look into .NET and APS.

I won't be doing any of the database programing, just making sure each product has all the info, including photos and data sheets, things like that.

But I know with some of the other sites we would like to host we'll need other things, like forms, and some password protected pages, which I think need some kind of SQL database that is out side of the accounting site.

Thanks
Todd