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Web Developer Captured My Business Site

Discussion in 'Employees and Human Resources' started by Thomas Hale, Jul 18, 2015.

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  1. Jul 18, 2015 #1
    Thomas Hale

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    We build our business website from a web developer. He had the access of domain hosting and everything, that is was the bad idea. After he doing his job we paid him fully. Now we have to make some changes and I called him. He ensure me he'll do everything we needed. We waited 2 weeks and nothing updated, then I called him but he ignore my calls. Right now he ignore everything even don't give any access to my site. What should I do now?
     
  2. Jul 19, 2015 #2
    William Clements

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    Not much you can do other than take it as a loss and get your own hosting to host the site on. You can change where it is hosted as long as you have access to the account (hopefully your own account) with a domain site like GoDaddy or NameCheap. Then find another person. Can hard to trust people, I know. I am not a developer but am very good when it comes to wordress so if your interested in using that then PM what you are looking for and I can let you know if I can do it or not, I would also include price as well. I am not yet a programmer or developer but I am working on my B.S. in IT with emphases on web development and coding as my major and web design & security as my minor and will get my masters degree, most likely when done as well. I am back in college as I am so interested in doing IT stuff and helping others with it.
     
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  3. Jul 20, 2015 #3
    EF-Roger

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    [QUOTE="Thomas Hale, post: 2487, member: 98We build our business website from a web developer. He had the access of domain hosting and everything, that is was the bad idea. After he doing his job we paid him fully. Now we have to make some changes and I called him. He ensure me he'll do everything we needed. We waited 2 weeks and nothing updated, then I called him but he ignore my calls. Right now he ignore everything even don't give any access to my site. What should I do now?[/QUOTE]

    Sorry to see this happened to you. People like that give web developers a bad name.
     
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  4. Aug 19, 2015 #4
    Thomas Hale

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    Thank you so much for your suggestion. I have hired another developer and he makes me happy. I got my website and recover all my business. Now its time to take legal action against the developer.
     
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  5. Aug 19, 2015 #5
    Sebastian Fisher

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    That is cool. Congrats to get back your site. Please check my PM.
     
  6. Aug 23, 2015 #6
    Game Changer

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    That's worried especially when tech person come out with fraud. Glad to know that you get your site back as well as took action against him. Let us know what happened then.
     
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  7. Aug 25, 2015 #7
    Twista Tom

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    Well mate you save my day. I just want to start a new business and wan to set up a new website. Now it's time to find out the right developer. Otherwise I'll have to faced same type of issue. Thanks man.
     
  8. Aug 26, 2015 #8
    AIMADNET

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    That's so bad. You should have your own hosting + backup feature, that way you control everything, but happy you recover the site.
     
  9. Oct 26, 2015 #9
    dyanmarie25

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    I am glad you've found a new developer who is much reliable and efficient. And yes, it's time for your previous developer to pay for what he has done to you.
     
  10. Oct 27, 2015 #10
    pwarbi

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    I think stories like this will serve as a warning to others that no matter what sort of access you grant to a third party, its always important to keep control of your site, and not trust anybody with complete control.

    At least that way you can revoke the clients access at any time, and even though you might lose the payement you have sent, at least you'll still have your site and it won't be lost.
     

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