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Post it up on Freshmeat (when they get back online --MySQL connection
error!) as there is bound to be a need for it.

On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 14:32, Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
> Ok, I was using a spreadsheet to track what domains we were hosting, who 
> the client (owner) was, what 'hosting package' they were using, when it 
> was due, etc., and it quickly got out of control.  If I didn't look at 
> the spreadsheet every day (we didn't think to setup billing cycles, so 
> we had customers that were due pretty much every day), I got behind.  I 
> went to freshmeat to try to find something that was free (we're in that 
> 'starving artist' phase of business right now), would keep track of who 
> we were hosting, when they signed up, when they were due, and how much 
> they owed up.  Also, I wanted it to email me when customers were $X days 
> out, so I could send them a net 30 invoice.  Long story short, couldn't 
> find anything, so I threw something together myself.  It's ugly, 
> undocumented, insecure, etc., but pretty straight forward.  If there's 
> anyone out there in a similar position (i.e. need something to track 
> billing, and remind you when to bill folks ahead of time), if you 
> promise not to laugh, I'll send it to you.  You pretty much just have to 
>   do the following to get it up and running:
>   - Create a database
>   - Add your user to the database
>   - add a 'use table;' statement to the top of the .sql file
>   - run mysql < file.sql -u -p
>   - unzip the files in a directory that your webserver can see
> 
> Again, I wouldn't use it anywhere that someone wearing a darker hat than 
> you could get to it, but it works, and is helping me to keep my sanity. 
>   If you're interested, shoot me an email and I can email it to you. 
> The whole thing (zipped) is only around 56k.
> 
> If this is the wrong place to stick this, my apologies.  I just know 
> that there are some other folks doing web hosting, and I wasn't sure if 
> they were having the same problem.
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