issue.
I "interited" prunebelly from the original author of much of the site,
never having looked at the site myself. I do not have prune belly syndrome
but Brian was a very good friend to me in an online game I was immersed in
at the time of his death, and we had some business dealings. I found out he
had died because I left questions about the web hosting account we shared
on his answering machine.... along with my number. His widow returned the
call (eventally).
Meanwhile, she was a very nice person with very little computer literacy
and too much on her hands to keep the prune belly website online. The web
hosting company did not get paid, and the site went offline. Nobody who was
active in the support group had a clue what to do, and to be fair, it
wasn't easy to re-create it. The hosting company insisted on being paid for
six months of back bills. The domain was registered in Brian's name, not
the group's; that alone was a major problem. The patient registry as it
stood at the time of his death was completely lost; nobody ever got up the
nerve to try to get the non-computer-person widow to go through Brian's
hard drive....
Now, most web sites out there are not the sum total of medical knowledge
about a rare disease, but perhaps the above illustrates the non-trivial
nature of the issue...
Dana
Bill Wheatley writes:
> It would be more horrible then you and phil dieing?? I think not...
>
> I bet they would even understand and not hold it aganist you lol.
> But its good of you to try to take care of your peeps from beyond the
> grave
>
>
> --
> Bill Wheatley
> Senior Database Developer
> eDiets.com, Inc.
> (OTCBB: EDET)
> 3801 W. Hillsboro Blvd.
> Deerfield Beach, FL 33442
> V: (954) 360-9022 ext. 159
> F: (954) 360-9095
> E: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> W: <http://www.ediets.com/> www.ediets.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erika L Walker-Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 12:31 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: RE: For all you freelancers and business owners
>
>
> Yeah, it's all back-ed up, etc. that's not an issue at all.
>
>
> It's someone with enough knowledge of the web industry basically
> "inheriting" the business and keeping it running.
> By the time all is said and done there could be over 400 sites running
> on 3 different servers that just need support and possibly further
> services.
>
>
> I really like the hosting company solution, as we're pretty tight with
> them. they know CF, they already manage and have access to the servers.
> Probably find a few point people to handle the clients and get
> agreements drawn up.
>
>
> Does that sound pretty feasible?
>
>
> Whatever we do, it also needs to have a bit of cascading to it, meaning
> we can let someone "inherit" the business, but what if something happens
> to them just days later? How many levels would you take care of and/or
> arrange? We take all this pretty seriously and I have no intention of
> letting anyone "hang out to dry" because that would be horrible. Well, I
> think so anyway...
>
>
> So much to do ....
>
> Cheers,
> Erika
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Phillips (CFXHosting.com) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 11:56 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: RE: For all you freelancers and business owners
>
> Good point. If the hosting company offers managed services on the
> dedicated server contract, backups and the like should be included in
> there.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 11:49 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: For all you freelancers and business owners
>
> Erika,
>
> Here's my experience. When my former employer EBStor.com suddenly closed
>
> its doors, they were all set just to burn a CD with the customer's and
> leave them in the lurch. Fortunately our network guy found a hosting
> company that was willing to take over the contracts for their duration.
>
> If I were you I'd talk with your hosting company. Then get an agreement
> drawn up by a good lawyer that if anything happened to you, the hosting
> company would take over the contracts. Just make sure that they get
> recent
> copies of your sites, and database backups on a regular basis.
>
> larry
>
> At 11:37 AM 11/13/2003, you wrote:
> >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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>
>
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>
>
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