I used to host my client projects over the past 10 years and finally stopped (and thankful for it). Sometimes the hosting costs to the client is so small that

I used to host my client projects over the past 10 years and finally stopped (and thankful for it). Sometimes the hosting costs to the client is so small that it takes you ages to chase them for the money. If you can automate payments and be strict on pulling the off switch when they don't pay, then that might be good. My approach now is to get them to pay for hosting/domains, and give me their login details and I configure it all. Then you can invoice for you time separately and never be out of pocket. The biggest pain I found is switching hosting providers, whether through saving money, better service. Getting all he clients moved would take best part of 4 months sometimes because I had more important freelance work to be getting on with.