Posted by on Jul 28, 2011 in My Business Adventures, Rants, Webdesign | 0 comments

Being a “webmaster” for a growing number of website clients is frustrating. Besides having a ridiculous title that feels like I should be growing a beard and rolling 20-sided dice, it’s getting downright crazy just accounting for all the setup and password information I have to keep for each person.

Just 1 client I keep can have a handful of passwords:

  • 1 password for the domain registrar
  • 1 password for the domain host
  • 1 password for the  website host admin
  • 1 password for the FTP account
  • 1 password for any databases

And this would be on a good account. This doesn’t even address the more complicated situation where a client might have colocated servers or subdomains to maintain as well. It’s gotten to be quite insane and requires a whole lot of record keeping on my end to keep them all in-record somewhere. And that doesn’t even count the growing liability I have just making sure I don’t get any of my client accounts compromised.

Unfortunately many of my clients themselves don’t keep records of these things themselves. They’d ask ME to get their passwords that they themselves created and gave to me in the first place!  WTF!!?  And some folks wonder why I charge what I do?

It certainly makes the argument for facial recognition technology more attractive to me. Password management is something I’d ditch immediately if there was a more effective solution.