Death, Data, and You
Say you die, right now. What will happen to your clients' websites, and data? Do you provide your clients with sufficient access to your server(s) so they can retrieve all their data? Did you register their domain name? Do they have the password to access it? Have you changed passwords recently, did you forget to inform them about it?
Have you prepared your clients for a loss like that? How?
pr0gr4mm3r posted this at 19:28 — 18th March 2009.
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Who cares - I'd be dead.
Ok, seriously - I have all passwords in a password manager with a master password that is written down in a safe that other people have access to in the office if needed.
Some domains are on my account, but the Whois info is under the client, so they would have recourse to get it. Most of the business are in this area anyway, so I see two possible scenarios:
1) I die from sickness or something - close family and a couple other people that know my business will be able to access backups from my web server, home server, or DVDs in the safe, and then contact clients, etc.
2) Chicago gets nuked which wipes out me and my family and close people that know my business. 90% of my clients would also fall in this geographic region, so I wouldn't have that many people looking for data anyway.
decibel.places posted this at 03:55 — 19th March 2009.
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Matt, are you planning something we should know about?
pr0gr4mm3r posted this at 12:20 — 19th March 2009.
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It actually is a good question, though. It's something a lot of freelancers and small business owners don't think about.
decibel.places posted this at 19:36 — 19th March 2009.
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Clients aside, how many people provide for their own family and loved ones?
Especially if you are "young" you do not expect to ... die ...
pr0gr4mm3r posted this at 21:11 — 19th March 2009.
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It's funny you chose that icon...I've been close to that fate before.
teammatt3 posted this at 16:11 — 19th March 2009.
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Heh. Wouldn't you like to know...
greg posted this at 19:52 — 19th March 2009.
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I catered for this eventuality!
I have a wire linked from my heart to my PC with a heart monitor. If my heart fails all my work gets posted to clients and any forum posts I have open automatically subm
decibel.places posted this at 20:04 — 19th March 2009.
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really?
Megan posted this at 16:21 — 20th March 2009.
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My passwords are pretty well documented in a safe place but I don't know how to access any of Jeevesbond's stuff. I'll have to bug him to document that sometime.
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pr0gr4mm3r posted this at 17:03 — 20th March 2009.
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Heh, that would make me nervous. Like my wife comes to me and asks, "What will happen to your computer data if you die? You should store that in a place where I can access it...by next Wednesday......at 9pm."
greg posted this at 17:13 — 20th March 2009.
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Wednesday 9PM ... "I've cooked your favourite dinner..."
Or did you mean Wednesday Morning 3AM?
decibel.places posted this at 18:23 — 20th March 2009.
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no it's Wednesday morning at five o'clock
allenz posted this at 21:01 — 1st April 2009.
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Hi,
Thanks for sharing the vies on the interesting topic.............
Michael James Swan posted this at 06:47 — 24th March 2009.
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I have often thought about this, more lately though. But yes, it is a good question.
There is only one other who has access and that is one of my closest friends and advisors but his more like a partner businesswise anywway.
~ Mike
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