Start with the site you operate today
A hosting decision begins with an inventory, not a promise. Identify the current host, domain registrar, DNS records, SSL arrangement, email records, content management system, database, administrator accounts and third-party services. A Bluffton firm may serve clients beyond the town boundary, so do not use the town’s population as a forecast of website traffic. Instead, examine your own site’s pages, forms, traffic patterns and operational dependencies. Bosseo’s public Dedicated Hosting page describes migration of files, databases, DNS, SSL and email records as part of its managed move.
Recommended approach
Ask for a written inventory of what will move, what will remain with another provider and who controls each credential. Require confirmation that your domain remains yours and that the proposed plan accounts for email records before any DNS change.
