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Discussion on: Freelancers, do you host and maintain client websites? Why or why not?

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Ben Halpern

I haven’t freelanced in years, but have some thoughts.

I always found myself hosting stuff and regretting it later. I think I needed to either avoid this altogether or lean into it more as a core part of my offering. I wound up floating somewhere in the middle.

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Terrance Corley

Hey Ben,

Thanks for commenting! Yeah, based off all the responses here I think I'll leave client hosting to the experts for now.

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Robin Kretzschmar

That's my experience, too. I often started hosting websites for clients quickly just that they don't have to take care of all that stuff and don't despair.
But over time, problems occur, things break, they have new requirements and all that stuff can get out of range real quick.