[TYPO3-jobs] Customers hiring TYPO3 Developers to steal sites

[Xavier Perseguers]

Hi Andi,

I have the feeling there are two different concerns here.

> The employee at Mittwald told me that it would be a normal process for them
> to enter sites, as often they get asked from new clients to transfer their
> old sites from the former hoster. Even in that case I would say they won't
> be allowed to access the site without prior consulting the former Hosting
> Company!

If someone comes to me and gives me admin access (FTP, TYPO3 admin, ...)
and mandates me to move her website somewhere else, I'm asking myself by
reading this conversation why I would not do it? I mean it's a job to be
done, I'll most probably invoice it and again by reading, I'm asking
whether I would get in touch with the former hoster, I guess no, why
would I? (wait, I've something to add after next paragraph).

Now, the second point is that (if I read carefully enough) you expect a
contact to be established with the former hoster in case the
corresponding client did not pay something. Well, that's a full other
story and IMHO not related to being moved around but to some former
contract and the client has to honor it and pay the due fees of course,
that's out of question.

Now to come back to first point, the case where I would get in touch
with the former hoster/company would be if the website is not a "simple"
website but some "platform" that the client may be using but is not
hers. But, in that case, I wouldn't expect the client to have been
granted admin access anyway.

I cannot and don't want to judge what Mittwald did or did not, that's
none of my business here so this was just my own personal opinion on
that matter.

Kind regards

-- 
Xavier Perseguers
TYPO3 CMS Team Member

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