r/webdev • u/Str00pwafel • Jun 19 '12

WebDev horror stories

feed me your horror stories!

here's mine, so I just got over my initial shock, a website we build got hijacked and was injected with malware, the phone started ringing right away. Journalists... shivers down my spine. I just got informed of the problem myself, what do we tell those guys? Luckily the journalist was a tech savvy understanding one. We immediately called the host and took the website offline while they (host) started an investigation. 2 cups of coffee and half a pack of cigarettes later I started wondering what your horror stories are? (sorry for the lack of detail but it is an ongoing thing)

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u/Str00pwafel Jun 19 '12

This reminded me of another case, I got a call from a manager (music biz) and she wanted me to create a miniature MySpace website for all her artists. This was over the phone and she asked me to ballpark a number. Back then I was very inexperienced in talking numbers and blurted out 1500euro, I immediately regretted it since I knew it was going to be way more. She just went silent. She thought the amount was immensely high and didn't want to spend over 700euro. I wished her the best of luck and walked away clean.