experience at a webhost in Santa Fe... one of our competitors went out of
business, having set himself as the technical AND administrative contact on
each and every domain, and left no forwarding number...
Dana
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
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
> -----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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