I've been going down this road for months trying to convince the boss
that we need to do something different. Most of the problem is, the WISP
software packages don't fit our overall business. So I'm still shopping,
and there's nothing that all of us in the management group agree on, but
we're gonna do something.. soon.. because.
On the hardware front, I was pricing out VMware licensing for the
configuration I want, and there was just no way that was gonna happen.
The hardware came out to only about 1/4 of the overall cost.. that tells
you how much the VMware licensing would be. But there's plenty of
open-source virtualization projects out there like Proxmox, *stack this,
*cloud that, none of which do what I want. So I've settled on getting a
demo setup of oVirt running on a couple CentOS boxes and see where it
takes me.
On 10/21/2014 10:02 PM, TJ Trout via Af 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
