[stealthn]

Kevin,

Pretty much what everyone here said is valid. You can always bring it back in-house if you want, but moving it to a provider after is a lot harder. It depends on what your business model is and how you are going to support it; UPS with generator backup for 7x24x365 access for example. Be careful though there are a lot of "rack space" companies that charge you for everything, power, circuits to your rack, etc. etc.

I would start with a hosting ISP that offers ecommerce as part of their package and try it out for 6 months to a year. You can definitely get in cheaper this way than hosting your own systems.

Ask Wayne his thoughts as well. Good Luck