1. Start with the site your Baltimore firm actually operates
A hosting decision should begin with an inventory, not a location assumption. List the public site, staging environment if one exists, domain registrar, DNS provider, email records, databases, forms, analytics, third-party scripts and administrator accounts. Baltimore city’s municipal geography helps define the address and service-area context for the page, but it does not tell you how much infrastructure your site requires. A small brochure site and a large site with many practice-area, location or legal-news pages may have different caching, storage, update and recovery needs. Bosseo’s public hosting description presents dedicated server resources, speed engineering, daily backups, managed security and SSL, monitoring, and migration support. Ask which of those elements apply to your site and how they will be documented.
Recommended approach
Bring a current asset and access inventory to the consultation. Ask Bosseo to distinguish what it manages from what remains with your firm or another vendor, and record the answer for domains, DNS, email, website files, databases and administrative access.
