Is it right for a webmaster to decide who gets to see your website?  If you own a business and want earn more customers though your web presence, and someone was able to effectively cut your customers off from you, whould you be mad?

In todays market that would be suicide for your business.  If you don’t have a contract with your web hosting company, and your webmaster, about this you could be in trouble.  Most people don’t understand that the webmaster has access to the server your are hosted on, and can ban I.P.s from accessing your web site.  In a normal world this would be bad business.  There are webmasters that do this, because they are not happy with an individual or company, or are scared of the compition.  So scared, in fact, that they start cutting of access to YOUR website so THEIRcompition can’t see you.

As they start cutting off I.P.s, one mistake and they can cut off whole ISPs, there by cutting off ALL the potential customers being serviced by that ISP.

How do I stop this?

This is the easy part.  Make sure you have a contract to safe guard your business interests in this matter.  That simple.

Most webmasters have enough ethics, not to do such things, but some don’t.  Better to be on the safe side, and make sure.

Shannon Smith

SilverFlame Designs

Tampa Website Design