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Hosted services can provide your Internet business with low cost access to enterprise grade services online and are commonly called "SAAS" (software as a service) or "ASP" (application service providers).

Are you concerned that you could do a lot of work, only to find your SAAS provider ends up losing all your work (or even goes out of business) and leaves you with no backups? Are these real dangers or am I worrying over nothing?

I'm getting more questions about the reliability and risks of ASP and SAAS services as these hosted services move more of our data storage and transactions far away into the "cloud".

Here's my recent answer to a ClickMillionaires.com coaching club member about the risks and dangers of SAAS services.