Using the simple and intuitive tool set that is delivered with the Revize application, a non-technical customer can log in and change their Web page content as needed. Watch Your Performance and Management For ISPs and Web hosting companies seeking to make their entrance into the application service provisioning arena, products like Revize provide a quick route. Of course, more is required to make an ASP service business ready. Most leading ASPs today, including Interliant, Corio and USinternetworking, include performance and security guarantees in their value proposition. Delivering on that guarantee requires some hefty processing power and bandwidth.
Security is another engineering concern.
Customers want to ensure their data is safe from outsiders, that their on-line sessions with hosted apps are safe from eavesdropping, and that the ASP itself has implemented sufficient security to ensure its service is accessible on a 24 by 7 basis. In terms of both performance and security engineering, numerous hardware and software products exist that provide excellent point solutions. Perhaps the most difficult aspect of ASP operations is to find the right mix of security and performance enhancements and to deploy them in a manageable way. Linett reported that his firm's expertise in traffic shaping and load balancing garnered the notice of numerous dotcoms beginning in 1997. NetZero, ASP Interliant, National Telemedia and a number of other dotcom survivors engaged the firm early on to tweak their infrastructures to handle massive amounts of traffic manageably and securely.