Why don't you forget about the automated subscription service and use the phone or email to get the money in. Once you have your 5-10+ subscriptions up and running then you can upgrade properly and then get your shopping cart or whatever.
Presumably you'll also want to use a different userID/password per user and track what they are doing so you'll need a completely new set of infrastructure tables and the backend code to maintain them. Another idea if your technical skills aren't yet upto the job would be to put the data onto CD and just send that out to the early customers; the data doesn't sound that volatile and web delivery may not be the best way. All the above would also give you a much earlier idea of whether this will be a success or not. Very few sites that ask for money for information are a success and if just five subscribers will bank roll you a new platform then your prices are clearly not a couple of pence per access. Good luck, Tony ----- Original Message ----- From: "Investor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 5:49 PM Subject: user / pwd access to db driven website > HI all, > > I would be extremely appreciative with solution > suggestions to the problem I am having. > > I really could use some help right now !! > > I am trying to get a database driven website up and > running that has some amount of security on it (which > i intend to make progresively better). It needs > user/pwd access to a database of info, after a > subscription fee is paid. > > Currently I am having trouble setting up the basic > structure. > > By the way this is a starup company, and only 5- 10 > subscriptions would fund much better software / > hardware / server for the site. So my goal is to set > up something inexpensive to get those 5 or so > subscriptions. > > Attempt No. 1: > I setup a test site ( virtual hosting I think it is > called) that utilizes perl & ms access. It works oK > except I didn't get the user/pwd thing working. It has > pwd protected directories - however they told me > queries will not work with the pwd protected directory > insalled. Technical support is very slow in > responding. And I didn't figure out how to provide > the needed security mentioned above. > > Currently I have been reading about mysql and just > installed it on windows 98. I am open to changing > over to linux based systems. However I would like to > create the tempory site to get a few subsciptions > prior to forking out the funds. > > So finally now that you guys know my situation can you > please make some suggestions as to how to get the > temporary site up ( to get 5 subscriptions or so) and > I think I coudl painfully, over time, work on a site > that could handle much more. > > Information: > The database would be text only, less than 1 GB ! > Right now I think it is at 5 MB but will increase. I > am familar with perl 5.6 and ms access. > Budget: Shoe string budget for now..... > > :) > I would greatly appreciate assistance.... > I am sure many of you dealt with this type of > situation before. > > > > > > > > > > ===== > Regards, > > Investorclb > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! > http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Please check "http://www.mysql.com/Manual_chapter/manual_toc.html"; before > posting. To request this thread, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe, send a message to the address shown in the > List-Unsubscribe header of this message. If you cannot see it, > e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
