Client bought a domain, and registered it with a Typo

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After building the client's website it was time to point the Dns to the host, and bammm, error after error, after convincing my client to pass me the user and password of the domain provider I realized the problem was a mispelling of an aditional S letter to the client's domain.

Does anybody faced this kind of "fatal error"? lol

Top comments (5)

Alex Lohr • May 6 '22

I once had a client who wanted root access for himself to test stuff. Soon after, the server was hacked. It took me 10 minutes of investigation to find out that he had added an account for "test" with the password "test". I billed him 2h for restoring the system from backups (which were fortunately recent). He did not ask for root access again. 😂

JoelBonetR 🥇 • May 7 '22 • Edited

I've some fear tales from clients with root access.

The one that took the server down because he realised that red button will make him saving costs.
The one that tried to update a Prestashop through the one-click upgrade.
The one that call the hosting platform to reduce costs and decided that backups were not necessary (we realised it the wrong way).

There are other stories from users without root access:

The one that forgot to check the expiry date on it's credit card and got bot the domain and the hosting down for 2 days before realising it.
The one that set up the emails with Exchange and then cried about having to pay Microsoft Outlook licenses (after 5 years).

Enough fear for today, chill a bit and have fun!