An IBM® Lotus® Domino™ service provider delivers services to small-and medium-sized businesses, or multiple hosted organizations from a single Domino domain. To those hosted organization, the service provider offers Internet protocol-based access to a specific set of applications running on Domino servers. By using a service provider, a company can outsource the administration of applications and services that were formerly run on the company's computer infrastructure.

This portion of the documentation focuses on the decisions you will be making when planning and setting up your xSP server environment. You can then use your xSP server to host small and medium businesses.

Planning the xSP server environment contains these topics:

• The Domino service provider administrator
• Ways to set up a service provider environment
• Securing the service provider environment
• Using Domino features in a hosted server environment
• Planning the IP Address configurations in a hosted environment
• Planning the distribution of hosted organization data
• Deciding which protocols and services to offer in the xSP environment
• Using activity logging for billing at hosted organizations
• Deciding which applications to offer multiple hosted organizations
• Example of planning a hosted environment

Planning the IP Address configurations in a hosted environment
Planning the distribution of hosted organization data
Setting up the service provider environment

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