Most Internet Marketers have more than one site promoting their individual information products. Some have 20 or 30 active sites, all sending separate streams of income into their bank accounts. That's a good thing!

What's not so good is if you have all your sites in one account, hosted on one server. When that granddaddy of all nightmares happens - the server goes down, all your sites go down with it. Thinking about that should keep you up at night.

Granted, there's some benefits to putting all your sites in one account. Usually you can get a better deal from the hosting server, saving you some money on a monthly basis. Updating your sites is a simple process. There might be processes and procedures common to all your sites that would be easily accessed when everything is in one place.

The major disadvantage to this seemingly time-saving benefit is that, when the server goes down, so does your entire business. Both you and your customers are left spinning in the dark until the onsite technical support people can fix the problem, if they actually are onsite.

If you'd done your research before selecting your hosting service, you would have 24/7 technical support to quickly get your business back online. If you don't have 24/7 service available, it might be time to rethink your decision to put the success of your business in their hands.

One of the realities of online business is that all servers will go down once in a while, just like the hard drive on your personal computer can. That's not the real problem, though it might seem like it when you cannot access your own business.

The real problem is the lack of customer service that you bought into when you signed up with your hosting service.

When you consider what it took to get you to actually selecting a company to host your online business... creating your product and your website, writing your sales letter to attract customers, setting up your autoresponder and payment processes, selecting related bonuses to make your offer even more attractive...putting it online might seem like the easiest part of this process.

In reality, your hosting service and the company's attitude about customer service, including whether or not to offer 24/7 technical support, is the most critical decision you can make. Think about it! Your website might be hosted several states away or in another country on the other side of the globe. Who will you call when your site disappears in the night?

One suggestion is to ask your host to spread your sites over several servers.

This simple solution would at least give you access to some of your businesses. If they cannot or will not accommodate you, it might be a good idea to rethink your hosting service decision.