whmcs is under $20 a month, of course you need to plug it into your own 3rd party payment processing gateway.
http://www.whmcs.com/order-now/ On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 8:02 PM, TJ Trout via Af <af@afmug.com> 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 >