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When it comes to traditional, brick and mortar retail space, we've all heard the adage that it's "location, location,location" that counts. However, this adage holds equally true for an e-commerce Web site where the choice of a Web hosting service is one of the m ....

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.... after a major fire. I would equate the failure of a Web host for an e-commerce site to that of a fire for a traditional store, and would expect that a similarly high proportion of Web stores would go out of business as a result. I guess that most Web merchants are complacent, either assuming that they will never have to change hosts or that if they do it will be a straightforward matter. However, the truth is that changing your Web hosting service can be very difficult, particularly for e-commerce sites because the software the store runs on - whether CGI scripts or a fully-fledged Web commerce server - needs to be moved as well. So how do you go ....