Do I have to host the web service i'm using as my backend?

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Hi all

Please don't laugh if this is a stupid question, but I have multiple(4 to be exact) web services which I created myself on my system that act as a backend to a web site I created. now my question is do I have to host all of them to a host site for my website to function?

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Posted 21-May-13 2:04am

mlingo209

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ZurdoDev 21-May-13 8:08am

They need to be hosted somewhere. Webservices run under the context of IIS so yes, they'll need to be hosted somewhere. What really is the question?

mlingo209 21-May-13 8:10am

Can't I just run them on my local machine and my front end will find them when hosted on a service like web africa or something?

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Nick Fisher (Consultant) · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-21T04:46:00

You don't have to host them on the same site your website is hosted, but it does make more sense to do that. As long as the web service itself is visible to your web site (i.e. it's hosted at a http:// address that can be accessed on the internet), then you can host it pretty much wherever you like.

The biggest disadvantage of hosting on your own machine is that you have to always have the machine switched on and hooked up to the internet, and then of course there's the issue of making backups and having a recovery plan should your service ever go down when you least expect it. Hosting with an on-line provider takes care of all these issues - but each to his own!