It's a very valid point. Since I've been with hosting companies for
almost 5 years, this is more common than you think. Seems like there is
always a reseller that goes out of business and leaves town without a
trace or they just can't find the guy or worse, death, disability etc.
Everytime the customer is left high and dry with a website and no clue
how it works or sometimes even where its hosted.
Maybe we should use the "buddy system". If something happens, your Buddy
takes over at least informing your clients and help to move them off to
another developer if they can't or won't take them on as a client. Just
off the top of my head.
Surely there are other business plans out there that may have some
suggestions.
Dan Phillips
www.CFXHosting.com
1-866-239-4678 x105
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-----Original Message-----
From: Erika L Walker-Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 11:38 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: For all you freelancers and business owners
What do you do in the event you no longer exist?
By either death, disability or winning the lottery.
What happens to your customers?
Do you have something arranged with someone to take over?
We need to come up with a solution soon, and I was curious about how any
of you may deal with it.
Our work for our clients are not one-offs. They are all using a hosted
solution of ours on several dedicated servers. So if we disappeared off
the face of the earth tomorrow, as long as there was someone to run the
servers, they'd be fine ... But it's finding that someone. I toyed with
the idea of asking the actual hosting company if they'd be interested
... But before I do that, figured I'd get some other ideas, if there
were any ...
And it's not like I can put the code in escrow, because it's not just
the code. They wouldn't have a clue what to do with the code, they need
the service.
Does any of that make sense?
Cheers,
Erika
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