Personally I would say that you could (or could not) feel bad depending on
how much you like the client in first place.
Liability, on the other hand, is a legal issue - and unless you were
contracted to do this work then liable you are not. Even if the local IT
department doesn't actually host th
: bret [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 4:49 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: liability/guilt/blame question
I agree with that. This was really more a client of a client, to make
things more complicated. But the hypothetical developer feels guilty for
not being more
I agree with that. This was really more a client of a client, to make
things more complicated. But the hypothetical developer feels guilty for
not being more proactive.
At least the files and database structure still exist, and the old data
is there. But 3 months of changes may have been lost.
Nope. Their IT department was not doing the hosting. Once the old server
was shut down everything went to the bitbucket. Just got confirmation on
that one from the hosting company.
-Bret
Jerry Johnson wrote:
> Hypothetically, you needn't worry, since the nightly backups their IT
> dept does c
Something similar happened to a client of mine. He paid a firm big bucks
to build a Web site for him and have it hosted. The thing he did not
realize is the hosting was only for a year, and he never received a bill
to renew the hosting. Long story short, the hosting company deleted his
entire site
Hypothetically, you needn't worry, since the nightly backups their IT dept does can easily restore the content to a new machine.
Right?
Jerry Johnson
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