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While your new website is getting transfered…

January 25th, 2006

I just bought another website today. It wasn’t anything special except from being in direct competition with one of my other sites. So I bought it immediately and cheap! But something happened that made me think about important things to tell the seller when buying a website.

What happened was when the seller should download and send me all the files. Before he downloaded the files he changed the config files, so that his password for the webserver wouldn’t get into my hands. This isn’t a wrong thing to do - not at all! But it had a side-effect, which was that the website only gave a MySQL error, when trying to access it. I e-mailed him and asked him to correct it, and I also asked him to keep the website running for yet a couple of days. He kindly fixed it and agreed to keep the website running!

What then came to my mind, is that I just expect a seller to keep the site running for a couple of days, until the DNS changes etc. has come to effect. And I guess that some of you also would expect it. But he didn’t, so in the future I need to remember to inform the seller about such expectations.

Tags: website transfer, buying websites, domain transfer

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