Multi-Company Questions + Others

[Purevoltage]

First off this is an awesome feature that I requested for a long time from other billing companies and it's great to see this feature here!

 

A few questions I had about this before buying it.

1. Do we have to have the multiple sites hosted on the same box? 

2. Is there a dev version we can also use for testing before moving things into a live site or do we need another license for this?

3. Is it possible to have redundancy in this say having it run in two locaitons? I know that the database part shouldn't be an issue however thinking about the license for it being active in two+ locations so if one ever has a network or power issue our site and support is still online.

 

Thanks.

[Michael]

First off this is an awesome feature that I requested for a long time from other billing companies and it's great to see this feature here!

 

A few questions I had about this before buying it.

1. Do we have to have the multiple sites hosted on the same box? 

2. Is there a dev version we can also use for testing before moving things into a live site or do we need another license for this?

3. Is it possible to have redundancy in this say having it run in two locaitons? I know that the database part shouldn't be an issue however thinking about the license for it being active in two+ locations so if one ever has a network or power issue our site and support is still online.

 

Thanks.

 

1. You can if you get a Multi-company license. Or you can just have different licenses on different boxes.

 

2. You need a paid license to get a developer license, you can however get a trial.

 

3. I don't believe you can, since the license works per location / IP / domain name.

[Purevoltage]

Thanks,

I figured that was correct for the first two the main thing I was really wondering about was the third it would be a great feature I know I asked about it before with another billing panel can't recall if I got a reply from them on it or a copy pasted reply that wasn't what I was even asking about.

 

Maybe I should put it as a future request.

[Paul]

Actually.. multi-company uses the same installation, so they would be installed on the same box. You would point the docroot for each domain to the same place.

 

You can request a dev license by opening a ticket. They are granted to anyone with an owned license.

[Purevoltage]

Thanks Paul,

For the redundancy is there anything you could think of that would work for that? Or would it be a feature we could look at adding to Blesta? This would be great to know our support/billing panel is able to run even if a location goes down for some reason.

[Paul]

Thanks Paul,

For the redundancy is there anything you could think of that would work for that? Or would it be a feature we could look at adding to Blesta? This would be great to know our support/billing panel is able to run even if a location goes down for some reason.

 

We can manually add additional locations to your license if you're running it in a clustered environment. IP addresses and directory paths, though, generally you'll only have a different IP for each web server.

 

Currently we do not recommend running Blesta in a NAT however where your web server has a local IP address. This is an issue we are working to resolve in licensing.

 

Also, only the web server is licensed, so you can have a separate MySQL server or cluster of servers configured any way you like.

[electric]

Are you wanting to have website failover, or load balancing?   ie: What kind of "redundancy" are you looking to accomplish?

 

If you want to have load balancing, then you could do that now as I think Blesta license would be associated with your front-end load-balancing device or server.  Then the back-end would be transparent to Blesta, as you split services between the machines in your cluster.

 

If you're talking about a failover setup, then this would be possible if you can get the Blesta folks to allow you to have multiple IPs associated with your license.  In that case, you would have the same licensed hostname, but with multiple IPs. 

[Purevoltage]

Yeah we would be looking at doing just a failover setup for now,  A cluster setup will be something we setup in the future possibly.

[electric]

In that case, it should be fairly straight-forward as long as you can get the good folks here at Blesta to allow you multiple IPs for your hostname.  (I'm not sure how they restrict the licenses. ie: If it's by hostname or by IP or both.)

[Purevoltage]

Yeah either way they seem good here and willing to work with us which is nice.

Buying the lifetime one now.