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If you bring the hosting in-house you have the following advantages and disadvantages:

Establish a secure network apart from your existing intranet so that if your web server is compromised, your intranet will not also be compromised.

Establish a firewall and router to prevent the above problem and provide the necessary protection from port scanning and other hacker exploits.

Obviously by bringing it in-house you will gain the control over your server allowing much required flexibility and also save cost assuming you have the expertise.

There really are no considerations between out-sourcing and in-house if you are just maintaining content, but if you are programming applications then having an in-house server is much more desired for the control.

There are several questions you need to consider:

Will you be managing the email along with the website in-house?

Do I have the expertise to establish a secure web server and the resources to maintain it?

Do I have the bandwidth to handle traffic on my web server?

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