He seems to have found more success with GoDaddy as compared to HostGator, which is probably not terribly surprising given the size of GoDaddy.

Dan mentions his efforts to fight off blogspot splogs which were not successful. 

I personally have found that it is possible to report Blogspot splogs directly to Google, but Google does seem to work at their own speed and sense of urgency.  On a lighting website that I worked as a copywriter, I found that several of my articles were getting splogged all the time.  One article that covered Seagull lighting of all topics, seemed to get picked up and spread around about 23 different sites.  Now, initially, I didn’t mind as the site owner was looking to spread the word about their products, but soon the splogs started to get the facts completely mixed up, backwards and false and so we ended up going after the batch of them with mixed results.

The normal path for people to address these issues is through the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) at http://www.copyright.gov/.

For example there are many companies that provide payroll hosting.  The concept is sound you take a third party and you have them run your payroll services through their servers and systems at some distance from your office or building.

This is actually a good way to protect your employees in case of an emergency area payroll can still be processed even if you’re building disappears under water.

Many companies still purchase their payroll software the old-fashioned way, but more and more Web applications and firms that provide Web services or even third-party services that can be managed online are popping up.

Each company is going to have their own needs and the choice to move to hosting your payroll online through a different company is probably going to depend on the size of your company and its need for scalability and flexibility.