I think one other point is that smart clients like to have the keys to
their own domain and hosting, just in case the web developer turns out
to be a dick. I posted here in December about a saga of trying to get a
domain handed over, and that's still not totally finalised. Easily
avoided by registering your own domain through your own provider.
Hosting is a small cousin of that - in that developers can still hold
you to ransom if they feel like it, you have no idea how good the backup
routine is, etc.
I think it's perfectly reasonable to sort your own domain and hosting
and then give the dev only the access they need. However, it's pretty
foolish to run off and organise your hosting then tell the dev what was
chosen.
Personally I hate managing sites on 3rd-party hosting - the main one
being that you still seem to get roped into providing hosting support
("My site is down fix it now!") plus you can't always use tools like SVN
to roll out updates, yet there's no income to cover that.
Harvey.
On 12/03/2011 7:56 p.m., Chris Burgess wrote:
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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