Android Question Hosting x Client x Developer

[ricardo selle]

I'm a developer migrating from amateur to professional.

When I deliver a product (app) to the client, I have questions about how to handle the hosting of the database.

Should we host the database on a developer-owned hosting, or on a hosting owned and managed by the cliente?

 

[AHilton]

Lots of way to do that but it really comes down to your particular circumstance. Here's the short version of our decision making on this …

1) Does the customer owe us money after we deliver? Such as getting paid by the client for each app they sell or we've set up a service / maintenance agreement with the client. If 'yes', then we'll be glad to host (for a fee, of course) the database. Why? Because then we have control. Client doesn't pay = we have leverage. Simple business.

2) If #1 above is 'no', then we want nothing to do with having to host the database. It's THEIR responsibility.