[thelist] hosting client sites and DNS

Hugh Miller hmiller at cfpress.co.uk
Fri Mar 15 03:26:37 CDT 2013


I certainly prefer to manage the DNS myself and will admit that I 
sometimes cry when a client tells me they will manage it all themselves. 
Generally I find it a world of pain.

H



On 15/03/2013 02:53, Zachary Kent wrote:
> Renoir,
>
> Thanks for responding.  I prefer option 1 but I don't think all clients
> will want that -- we have some control freaks.  Do you find this is the
> case?
>
> Has anyone successfully *required* DNS control?
>
> Zach
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Renoir B. <renoirb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I had been through this. I was once managing 60 websites, alone, as a
>> one-man-army-company-owner.
>>
>> I always used hosting as the lost-lead part of the contract, only to save
>> so much in any maintenance time that can happen in the lifetime of a
>> relationship with the client.
>>
>> In other times, we ask access to the servers so we can by ourselves manage
>> changes and deployments.
>>
>> One other trick we did was installing a git hook (using gitolite) to deploy
>> on merge onto master.
>>
>> But, the last was a big client, many deployment in many countries and we
>> were also hired as solution provider regarding the web application
>> deployment as for it's development.
>>
>> All in all that being said.
>>
>> The idea to ask the client the following from the most ideal, to the more
>> complicated:
>> 1. Take care of domain name management, DNS service, Hosting
>> 2. DNS Service, Hosting and ask the client to change the domain name to our
>> DNS
>> 3. Hosting, and they do the rest. But In that case, they have resources.
>> obviously.
>>
>> But even in the last case. We had to play hackers to prove our points in
>> some configuration discrepancies and political wars we were involved in.
>>
>> Hope my experience answers your question/need for approval.
>>
>> :-)
>>
>>
>> *Renoir Boulanger*
>> Frontend developer &
>> Software designer
>>
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>>
>> ~
>>
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