I'm an Umbraco developer and intend to sale hosting. I want to assure my customers that if I disappear that they will be took care of. They will have an appointed person or business to help with the re hosting. At this point, I'am a one person team. How do I assure my customer(s)?
Umbraco is growing by the minute so I don't think your client would have any problems finding someone to help them with re hosting.
Maybe do a local linkedin searcht o find someone in your connection that could serve as a backup developer? There´s a lot of Umbraco developers on LinkedIn.
Hi Roland, I had a friend go through this recently where their developer passed and everything was in his GoDaddy account. It was a HUGE pain for him to gain access (for good reason), it took about 3 months with all of the attorneys involved, back-and-forth, etc. What I did after helping him with this experience is create a list of hosting access info and Umbraco admin accounts and handed them off to each of my clients along with another developer who's a friend of mine for safe keeping.
It isn't a perfect solution but at least they'll have access if something happens.
Interesting thought on the will, I just pinged a buddy who is a trust attorney to see what the protocol is, there has to be one for bank account access and such I'd think.
It would also be interesting if there was a system / app (maybe there is) where you an grant access to certain things based on scenarios like retirement, severance of relationship, etc.
In Case I Die
I'm an Umbraco developer and intend to sale hosting. I want to assure my customers that if I disappear that they will be took care of. They will have an appointed person or business to help with the re hosting. At this point, I'am a one person team. How do I assure my customer(s)?
Hi Roland.
First of, we all hope you won't disappear or die anytime soon, but I get your question.
You can tell your client that there's currently:
So your client is not alone is case something where to happen.
I don't know where you are from but on the communit page you can find Umbraco developers near you: https://our.umbraco.com/community/
Also on Umbraco.com you can find Umbraco partners based on other crituera than just location: https://umbraco.com/partners/find-a-partner/
Umbraco is growing by the minute so I don't think your client would have any problems finding someone to help them with re hosting. Maybe do a local linkedin searcht o find someone in your connection that could serve as a backup developer? There´s a lot of Umbraco developers on LinkedIn.
Best of luck to you!
Adding to the comment, our chief unicorn takes care of all Umbracians wherever they may be
Thanks for response
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Hi Roland, I had a friend go through this recently where their developer passed and everything was in his GoDaddy account. It was a HUGE pain for him to gain access (for good reason), it took about 3 months with all of the attorneys involved, back-and-forth, etc. What I did after helping him with this experience is create a list of hosting access info and Umbraco admin accounts and handed them off to each of my clients along with another developer who's a friend of mine for safe keeping.
It isn't a perfect solution but at least they'll have access if something happens.
Interesting thought on the will, I just pinged a buddy who is a trust attorney to see what the protocol is, there has to be one for bank account access and such I'd think.
It would also be interesting if there was a system / app (maybe there is) where you an grant access to certain things based on scenarios like retirement, severance of relationship, etc.
-Amir
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