take it down?
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- jamble0
It depends entirely on what your contracted terms for payment timescales are and what penalties you have in place in that contract for clients who don't pay.
It's not uncommon for larger companies to have 60 day payment terms and in which case ripping down a site won't help matters.
My standard freelancing contract clearly lays out 30 day payment terms with a penalty for late payment along with me reserving the right to remove any and all online assets IF no payment is received.
I've only had to do this once and to be honest it was for a small amount of money and a client I wasn't ever to speak to again so I didn't have a huge amount to lose but I'd suggest if you don't have it in a contract that you reserve the right to take down a site for non payment then you may find it more trouble than it's worth and that writing them a final demand for payment including the threat that if payment is not received in x days, you will take the matter to court.
Again, all this depends on what you've got in contracted payment terms really.
(On another note, don't take the site down, just rename the index page)