Hey if you own a business I need you to repeat after me:
- I will not let my web developer manage my domain registration.
- My domains are my responsibility and they cannot be handed to a contractor.
- If I do not control my domains, I do not control my website.
- If my domain is paid for on somebody else's credit card, it isn't really mine.
- I will read every contract carefully and abide by its terms.
- If the terms of a contract are not agreeable to me, I will amend them until the contractor and I both agree to and are aware of the terms.
- I will pay my contractors in a timely fashion.
- I will not burn bridges with my contractors.
- I will pay for domain registration myself, and will never grant anyone else complete control over my domain.
- I will not let my web developer manage my domain registration.
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If you need your car fixed and you call a mechanic you are mechanically illiterate, any idiot can drop a gas tank.
If you need your clothes altered and you call a tailor you are textilely illiterate, any idiot can take in a sleeve.
If you need a your bathroom fixed and you call a plumber, you are piping illiterate, any idiot can replace a toilet.
If you want a lasagna and you don't make it from scratch you are culinarily illiterate, any idiot can make a lasagna.
If you need to pay your taxes and you have to use an app you are financially illiterate, any idiot can fill out a form.
If you need a logo created and you don't make it yourself you are graphically illiterate, any idiot can draw a picture.
Shut the fuck up. People are busy. Not everyone has the time or inclination to become "technically literate" enough to build and maintain a website. I work with dozens of people more technically literate than I am, and not a single one of them went beyond wordpress/shopify/a developer to set up their own websites.
You are not an idiot if you choose not to cultivate specific skills or if some skills are not a priority in your life.
"any idiot can set up cpanel" lmao I just know this person watched one (1) YouTube tutorial and is now serving a static site from an unsecured public s3 bucket that's somehow still vulnerable to Heartbleed.
If you're talking about cpanel you are not "technically literate", you're using a nice clickops UI that a technically literate person built for you. There's no shame in that but don't condescend to other people about it.
And yeah, even learning how to register a domain and set up cpanel takes a level of expertise that most people don't have, and at that point you've learned just enough to get you and your unlucky colleagues in big trouble with an accidental misconfiguration. Messing around with a little personal project is different from building something that serves customer needs securely.