What's equally as important as finding a company to design your website? Finding a company to host it! When you prepare to launch a website of any size, be it a five-page portfolio or an online store featuring thousands of items, you want to be certain your hosting provider is reliable, effective, and dedicated. Nothing kills an online business faster than repeated blackouts and server blips. If your website is being hosted in somebody's garage, the friend of a friend, beware! You may not be paying much, but in terms of quality and support you get what you pay for.

Dissatisfied with your present server. Ask them the following:

• Do you back up my data every day? Let me see it!
• How many reports can I view on my web sites results? Let me see them!
• How much bandwidth do you have? Show me the report!
• What Email Management tools do I get? Let me see them!
• How are you protected against theft, fire, water, hurricanes? Show me!

If you have asked these questions and received faltering answers in return, if any, now is the time to take back your website and host it with a reliable service stored in a protected facility, not next to somebody's car!