1. Set the hosting boundary around Dyer and Lake County
Your firm may serve Dyer, the rest of Lake County, or a wider Indiana market. Those are different geographic decisions, and hosting should support the actual site structure rather than a vague local label. The U.S. Census Bureau records Dyer as a municipality in Lake County, with a 2020–2024 ACS five-year population estimate of 16,400 and a margin of error of 41. That is population context only. It does not prove search demand, legal need, competition or future client volume. For hosting, the practical question is how many pages, media files, forms and service-area destinations your website must reliably serve. Bosseo says its dedicated hosting is built for law firms and for sites with thousands of pages. Ask whether that stated scope matches your planned information architecture and publishing needs.
Recommended approach
Bring a current sitemap or page inventory to the review. Decide which pages serve Dyer, which serve Lake County, and which address broader Indiana services. Then ask Bosseo to explain the resource and maintenance implications of that structure without treating population as a forecast.
