implementing Private area

[madunix]

We are a public utility institution established by virtue of the Securities Law. The Company oversees securities’ registration, deposit, transfer of ownership and clearing and settlement.

The website and the mail server are both hosted in U.S.A. The COMPANY wishes to improve its website and increase the size of e-mail pops3/webmail accounts. The COMPANY site is static as it only includes text pages (SHTM, HTML, PDF, Word Document) and images and we wish to make it dynamic. The COMPANY site is hosted on a Windows 2000 servers and opening the pages of the site is very slow. Due to the above reasons we seek to improve the COMPANY site including hosting issues. Thus, the scope of work that will be required for the project is as follows web hosting and the connectivity with the existing environment:

A- Web hosting/Mail hosting and Redesigning the existing web
1. 500 MB Disk Space
2. 50x POP3 Account with 10MB size
3. 5 GB Data Transfer
4. Front page support
5. ASP support
6. Custom 404 Error page
7. Web statistics
8. Operating system Windows2000 or UNIX

Would you please provide us more about the web hosting issues in your company such as: Speed and Reliability, Backup system, Primary internet connection, Server Hardware, Support and Service.

B-The COMPANY web will have Public area and private member area.
Public area includes general information posted on the COMPANY website that can be viewed by the general public. Public Information will be:
Information such as News, Events Databases, etc., the COMPANY will have the ability to update them through the administration area.
Information from COMPANY’s database: Members information, Statistics, Glossary, etc.
- Public users will be able to search by categories, Member name and Securities.
- Users will be able to search the statistical data by Data type, year, bonds or shares and month for the current year.
- Glossary of terms for the COMPANY data to be developed where the COMPANY can add, update and delete new terms.
- The interface will be bilingual.

Private area will be dedicated to those who have been assigned a user name and password where the logged on user may access the public area in addition to specific information regarding that person such as the transaction statement. Members will be able to register only by going to the COMPANY offices and filling up an application this won't be done online. Members will be able to view information regarding the following:
Ownership
Market Value
Statement of Account
Other reports to be specified at a later stage.
The existing Network and Hardware structure at our COMPANY location have the following: Firewall PIX 515E with DMZ, Oracle9i Rel.2, Oracle 9i Web application server running on pSeries AIX 5.1 and xSeries 232 Redhat Advance Server 2.1


Any suggestion how to implement a private area?

[Jupac]

If you have the money go with Cpanel
http://www.cpanel.net/

[webgovernor]

Would you please provide us more about the web hosting issues in your company such as: Speed and Reliability, Backup system, Primary internet connection, Server Hardware, Support and Service.

I don't run my own server, but I have 2 primary hosting companies,
1 is jhosts, running Red Hat Linux 9.0, It's extremely fast hosting,
(my connection is always maxed when connecting to Jhosts (1.5Mb),
It's running on an AMD XP 3200+ server with 2048MB of ram and
140GB SATA HD, shared with 4 others...
(Jhosts was great, but I've recently experienced a lot of down time.)

Now, I also use alterhosting, alterhosting is great, but
less of a value, if you ask me.
With alterhosting, the server is a Red Hat Enterprise Linux box,
with Apache 2, it's very stable and almost never goes down.
But I get slightly less "bang for the buck."

Never go with powerithosting, I think they're out of business,
but I experienced about 20% down time with them over the course of
2 months, they were running a Win2k server with IIS, they were cheap,
but 20% is way too high for down time.

Hopefullly I understood the question, if not, well, sorry...

Good Luck!

[madunix]

Many thanks for your input ...
In our company we planning to request some proposal from
web design companies, but before we do this i have to write an RFP (Request for Proposal) which points should I include in my RFP in order to make the picture clear for the Web designers companies.

Thanks