Memorandum

Date:      January 28, 2003

To:        Dr Peter Jordan, Professor of English, Tennessee State University

From:    Ijeoma Nnodu, student, Tennessee State University

Subject: Evaluating Four Different Hosts for My Personal Professional Web Site

Overview

The purpose of this memorandum is to evaluate four different website for our personal website. The four different website that I evaluated are Tennessee State University (TSU) Web server, Geocities Web server, Fortunecity Web server, and Angelfire Web server.

The first web server that I evaluated is the TSU Web server. This is a free web server available to all students in the university until graduation. However, students maintain the web server with their service fee included in their tuition. TSU’s Web server is also usable to students who have an account with the university. In addition, the web server offers 20 mega bytes of web space, Microsoft FrontPage to upload pages, unlimited bandwidth, and no pop-up ads.

The disadvantages of the TSU web server are that you have too much interference, server always down, and longer download time.

The second web server that I evaluated is the Yahoo Geocities Web server. Yahoo Geocities Web server offers free and paid web space to anyone wishing to develop a web page. It also has a guide on how to develop a web page that makes it easier and faster to create a web page. In addition, the web server is very stable and stays active as long as you want it. Yahoo Geocities offers 25 mega bytes of web space, 3 giga bytes of bandwidth, uploading files with FTP, pop-up ads, updating files, and easy to remember domain name.

Another web server that I evaluated is the Fortunecity Web server. This another web site that offers free web server to anyone that wishes to develop their web page on their website. Fortunecity also offers clear, simple, and understanding guidelines on web page creation. Some features that Fortunecity web server are many downsides, banner pop-up ads, 25MB web space, FTP access, 3 giga bytes of bandwidth, Online support document, and Microsoft FrontPage upload.

Lastly, is the Angelfire Web server. This web server is very simple to understand and helps to create one of the easiest web pages. Angelfire has free features like customer support, technical support, update files, Microsoft FrontPage upload, and 25MB web space.

In conclusion, all the four web servers that I evaluated gave me an overall overview of web sites that were accessible, free, and reliable for easy creation of web pages. However, the best web server out of the four that I will choose for my personal professional web page is the Geocities because it is reliable, stable, has page Persian templates and no pop-up ads.  

 

 

Confidential