1. Start with the site and the geographic boundary
Spokane Valley is recorded as a city in Spokane County, Washington. If your firm serves Spokane Valley, decide which website properties and service areas the hosting decision must support. A municipality, a county and a broader metropolitan market are not interchangeable. The local population estimate is useful context for defining the place you serve, but it does not establish how many people search for legal services or how many matters your website can generate. Hosting should therefore be evaluated against your actual site, not a population-based forecast.
Recommended approach
Bring the exact domain, current host, known website properties and intended service-area boundaries to the review. Ask which environment would host each property, who controls the domain and DNS, and which responsibilities remain with your firm. Keep market assumptions separate from infrastructure decisions.
