So I'm embarrassed to say that after over 5 years I still don't have a automated billing system and with the recent data breaches the labor to keep updating customers cards is finally pushing me to do something, I've been leaning towards Plat for a long time because of the cost and popularity and the fact that my mikrotik core router can easily integrate.... The problem is I'm a server N00B and have no clue where to start on that, I was thinking that someone might have a simple but reliable/redundant solution. I was looking at a single vsphere host running windows for plat and linux for radius & cpanel for the web module but I need to hire a consultant to get that done right, then the reliability concerns/backup etc come in and by the time the consultant was done planning my system we went from 1 box to 4, 1 main server with all of the above services + 1 dns, a second "backup" box that would have all of the guests from box #1 backed up for a almost instant fail over should box #1 die, then a 3rd box for vCenter and lastly a NAS to backup everything to, at another site on the network in case of fire/theft,etc. This sounds like a totally awesome setup but will end up costing me 10k by the time I get some decent hardware, software licenses, hypervisor consulting and Plat setup consulting... I wish they had a simple hosted solution... Arg.
Anyone have some other idea on how I can get up and running without spending a fortune but still have some type of disaster recovery should the box melt down? I really hate to spend the high monthly $$ on something like Visp, swift fox, etc Any guidance is greatly appreciated TJ
