Outsourcing Work Over Seas

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I have a client who recently found a vulnerability on their server (in the code, I am a gooooood sysadmin). The work was done in a different country. While I do not tell my clients where to go I hate getting phone calls at 4:00 AM that the server is down when it was the coders error (and the server is not down but rather the coders messed up). People have to learn that you get what you pay for. I am not knocking coders in other countries but I have seen my fair share of bad work done over seas. In the words of the great jbot in the #asterisk channel on irc.freenode.net

“<Dovid> ~ygwypf

<jbot> well, ygwypf is You Get What You Pay For. If the sole factor in your decision to purchase a product or service is that it’s cheaper than everything else out there, don’t be surprised if it’s also worse in every other respect than everything else out there.”

Nufffffffff said.

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/D

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