The Platypus server doesn't need to be beefy. Plat does do setup consulting. We flew them out to our shop to help us walk through it.
Regards, Chuck On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 11:02 PM, TJ Trout via Af <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
