On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 07:24:40PM -0800, Kent Parker wrote:
> Well at the end of the day I wasn't responsible for choosing either of
> these hosting solutions for the given site. The client asked me if I
> would manage his site but I declined because I don't consider myself
> to be a professional webhoster and because of his past previous record
> of choosing webhosts (in which case his suggestion I do it is
> relevant!). I'm only prepared to sell my services as a php dev and
> not a linux dev.
Stop me if you've heard this one before. Stakeholder is excited about project,
wants to contribute. Starts
sourcing ingredients - registering domains, purchasing hosting ("unlimited"
sounds like a good deal!), and so
on. They're only trying to help.
Just like you can "help" by taking a few of your own ingredients along to a
flash restaurant :)
Stranger still though is the unconscious attachment that can spring from
Stakeholder having found that hosting
company. I've seen people prepared to spend plenty $$$ to get a heavy duty PHP
app to run on mass/commodity
hosting, because the hosting was "such a great deal".
I guess what I'm saying, Kent, is: even if you aren't taking care of that end
of things, you may be able to
help them avoid the potentially expensive mistake of picking cheap tools to
work with. Giving them some good
advice there will probably help keep you sane too.
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