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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