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My question is this: Did you confer with them before you signed up for the hosting? If you didn't then I'm not sure why you're demanding money for it. You're o
by alaskamiller 18y ago
My question is this: Did you confer with them before you signed up for the hosting?
If you didn't then I'm not sure why you're demanding money for it. You're owed the $500 for the coding since you did it to spec, even if it's not as fanciful as they had imagined it.
But really... $300 for hosting? Are you serious? If I had someone come to me and try to that pull over me I would be furious. You could have easily showed them the site on a laptop without hosting and then talk to them after wards about extending your contract to consult for them how to implement the site.
- zasz 18y agoYes, of course I did. They're also not physically present and not technical at all. Just emailing them the code wasn't an option. Is $300 really such a bad deal for a whole year in advance, by the way? It works out to about $20 a month.
- brianr 18y agoMore like $25 :)
- alaskamiller 18y agoDid they okay the expenditure? Did you work out how you were going to transfer the code to them? 300 annually is 25 a month. Linode.com and slicehost.com both have plans starting at $19.99 and doesn't require prepayment. That might be something easier for them to swallow.
- zasz 18y agoYes, no. I suppose I could have emailed the code to them, but as non-technical people, they wouldn't be able to do much with it beyond passing it on to someone else. Anyway, thanks for the hosting suggestions; I'll definitely check them out.
- alaskamiller 18y agoIf they knew all of this going in then you're definitely owed the money. Good luck getting paid.
- avinashv 18y agoThat's actually $25 a month. Not a good deal--it's a $500 app for crying out loud! Ditch the hosting and go with slicehost--what you have probably isn't better than that. You can also pay per month IIRC.