Ask HN: Where to find a web developer who works holidays?

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Our website was just hacked over the holidays, during the time when nobody is working!

I've tried contacting our web developers during this time (an outsourced firm) but, of course, they were on holidays.

For the non-techs, what do you do with your website during the holidays and where do you find a developer during these times?

Thanks.

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Hmm... might be a good business opportunity for someone. Start up a holiday emergency response team, and sell it like insurance.

That might actually be a good business model. Likely to be very profitable as well as you're selling based on the apprehension of the customer.

In our case, the virus was dormant for several days only to be waken up in the middle of the holidays when everyone was away. Had we had this holiday emergency response team, this problem could have been quickly resolved.

Right after Christmas is a terrible time to be offline or visually compromised since people have gotten their gifts and may want to learn more about the company that made them.

Maybe this is obvious but, on non western cultures that have different holidays?

Doesn't everybody celebrate New Years?

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