In almost all cases, for most small and medium-sized businesses, establishing internal hosting capabilities are a larger investment than outsourcing. The major costs of in-house management of a website are an in-house IT staff (consisting of at least one person), equipment, software, initial set up costs, ongoing equipment and software upgrading costs, as well as the costs associated with around-the-clock monitoring and management. By outsourcing web hosting services to a managed provider, such as Falcon-Software, companies can expect a 25 to 80 percent cost savings over in-house solutions. Such outsourcing enables a company to reduce costs by freeing assets otherwise allocated to capital expenditures and the expense associated with a specially trained staff. Such assets often account for anywhere from 22 percent to 47 percent of the total budget for a website.