外包是当今商业世界中的一项常见活动，而外包网站是新企业主在创建大纲形象时通常会考虑的活动之一。
Beyond the initial website creation effort, a whole sleuth of activities (i.e. link up to search engines, website optimization) needs to be carried out. Thereafter, the site will go into maintenance mode (i.e software updates, new developments) to keep it running. This is something the website owner needs to fully understand and factor in.
在这篇文章中，我们将研究为小企业主外包网站开发和维护的利弊。以下是开始创建自己的网站时需要考虑的一些基本因素。在这种比较中，我们将其视为 DIY 作为企业主自己管理网站。
Complexity of your site. If the website is a simple informational website, this is something the business owner can consider to undertake his/her own self. However, on the website, there probably would be a sign up form to collect visitor’s email addresses, this is a security issue. A website with a sign up form is susceptible to SQL injection attacks. The attack would allow the attacker to gain direct access to the backend website contacts database. This could result in a personal data leak and attract the attention of the authorities. .
Time to market. All content management solution has a learning curve. As the website increases in functionality, so will be the learning curve. So depending on how much time the business owners has to focus on the website, otherwise it is prudent to simply outsource the development and maintenance of the website to a third-party vendor.
Frequency of change. Content changes from time to time. It is a minor text change, the small business owners can undertake the changes themselves. However if changes are in the form of enhancing the website, then considering a third party outsourcing provider would be the recommended way to go as it will consume a lot of the business owner’s time to research, implement, test and monitor these changes.
Frequency of updates. Business owners need to understand that all software needs to be update from time to time. Each updates need to be reviewed and updated. Once updated the website needs to be checked to see if anything is impacted by the updates. This takes time, depending on how many additional functionality was added onto the base website.
Data confidentiality. Data confidentially is very important especially when private data is concerned. Once a breach happens, data owners are obligated to inform the relevant authorities. Ideally the data owners (i.e business owner) should be the first to know of such a breach and not be the last to know, so you can better manage the breach.
在这方面，企业主需要充分了解如何保护他们的数据库。如果没有，他们最好将网站的开发和维护外包给第三方供应商，他们将处于更好的位置来保护数据。
请注意，即使您的网站托管在第三方托管服务提供商上，最终企业主仍负责保护其用户提供的个人数据。
Cost. Cost is always at the top of the mind of a small business owner. He/she is always looking at ways to minimize the cost of operations. Doing it internally could be cheaper financially, however, it takes time off on other operational issue. This is something the business owner as to weigh carefully.
从上面可以看出，对于小企业主来说，这个决定并不是一个简单的决定。 最终决定是在内部还是外包，还取决于可用资源和他/她所处的工作环境——上市速度重要吗？
If you need further clarification, do drop us a note and 我们谈谈好吗before you embark on this important decision.
