I don’t understand. How are they going to steal your customers? You mean just completely take over your website? There are laws that protect you from this and if there was a company that did this they wouldn’t be in business very long. I use and haven’t had any problems.

Host your website on a big company.
I use hostmonster.
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Absolutely but not necessarily for nefarious reasons you state. Can also be simply bad business, eg the Colo facility seizes assets for non-payment. Bad employees. Bad consultants. More.

That’s why I take advantage of my personal skillset (I’m in the IT business but web hosting is not my core interest) to deploy as much of everything myself, right down to the DNS servers the world uses to discover my companies websites.

A related situation is all the blogging and wikis people do.
Does everyone realize that the content they post about themselves, their personal lives and more become the property of the webmaster? They have over how that information might be used, sold, traded or displayed even if the content is removed?

Although the likelihood of criminal theft is relatively small, the chances of negligence and simple business vagaries happening are significant… especially if the website is your livelihood.

if you pick a trust worthy company to host your website then you won;t have that problem… My husband owns his own website company and he host many people that have great ideas and wishes he would think of their ideas… but he would never want to steal thier work or idea…. His clients trust him and depend on him to help thier business and idea come to life… Take time to find a great website designer and host and you will have no problem… if you need one email me at good luck