[BlueOnyx:01897] Re: Blueonyx Digest, Vol 7, Issue 62

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Ken,

> Yes, basically none of our businesses can scale without automatic site set
> up from the billing system.
> So we do need that; and once the sites are set up, then there has to be
> extensive help info so that customers don't have to call with questions.
>
> But, if course Michael can't do it all.

True. And personally I don't see much of an incentive of coding a WHMCS 
interface into BlueOnyx. WHMCS is commercial software, although it appears to 
me modestly priced for what it does. Still, buying it (in oder to see how it 
works and what it does) and then coding an interface for BlueOnyx doesn't look 
appealing for me.

All in all it would probably require that BlueOnyx needs an API interface that 
allows a central server or instance of WHMCS to provision sites and users in 
an automated fashion on any BlueOnyx that's connected to it. That API can 
hardly be coded as commercial add on (and then sold separately), as it would 
require changes to the core code of BlueOnyx and it would need a comprehensive 
and well rounded protection against unauthorized access. So it ain't something 
that would be trivial or come cheap. :o/

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber