1. Start with the site you actually need to operate
A Wakefield law firm may serve people in Wakefield, elsewhere in Middlesex County, or across Massachusetts. The geographic label does not tell you how large the website is, how much traffic it receives, or what infrastructure it needs. Before changing hosts, identify the site’s pages, media, forms, databases, domains, redirects and administrative users. If the firm publishes many practice-area or location pages, page count and publishing activity should be part of the hosting review. If the site is smaller and changes infrequently, the same questions still apply, but the operational burden may be different.
Recommended approach
Ask Bosseo to review your current hosting arrangement, site structure, content-management system, database, DNS records, SSL configuration, email-related records and administrator permissions. Request a written scope that distinguishes what will move, what will remain with another provider and what the firm must approve.
