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Alright, so I figure I'd bring this up here instead of elsewhere because you all seem very intelligent and may have experience in this department. I've been working on some stuff for a client of mine's in-house web-based app (remotely hosted). We have people registering through their website, which dumps data into a database and then it gets picked up and is accessible through the web app (think of it kind of like a CRM). The issue I am running into is my client has zero knowledge of PCI compliance laws and he wants me to take credit card details and store them in the database (type, name on card, card number, exp date, cvc). While I am wrapping it in json_encode and encrypting the string using asymmetric encryption I still don't feel safe doing this, and it's a real worry of mine. The server it is hosted on is their own. I manage it for them and maintain security updates and it's locked down fairly tight. I personally use Stripe, and love their tokenization storage. I'm curious if anyone has ever come across a service that ONLY does tokenized PCI compliant storage that is not a merchant/processor. He has all of his merchant stuff set up and I've spoken with the company they deal with and they do not offer any tokenized solutions. I'm thinking like a simple API that I can push/pull data from via curl using the token and never store the information on the server that processes this clients information. I've done some googling and I've come up with Auric System's PaymentVault: http://auricsystems.com/products/paymentvault/ They don't list any pricing but I'm just curious if anyone has come across what I'm looking for.

That made me laugh. haha

I use Thunderbird, because it is a consistent UI for the most part. I've never been a fan of Webmail what-so-ever anyway.

In Canada it depends on which generation you were born. I'm in my mid-twenties so it is all metric. My parents on the other hand are a good mixture of Metric and Imperial. My grandparents did not use Metric. Our country uses a mixture. For tempurature it is standardized on Celsius. Building codes are all in feet/inches, etc.

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I live in the Province of Saskatchewan, Canada. In the winter we get -45°C. In the summer we get +45°C. My personal preference is 10-15°C.

Congrats on #3. I've been in this business since while in High School, and just the past two years its been full time. My wife works part time, too, but that's basically just extra spending money at this point.As an aside to the topic of being in Vegas. I actually got married there. I live in Saskatchewan, Canada. $8,000 for the flights/hotel/wedding package/renting suit/spending money/etc. Can't even begin to plan a wedding for that around here. Another bonus we had our honeymoon at the same time, so it was pretty sweet. We got married 11/11/2011 (if you do the math, yes my kids were born out of wedlock, I don't care). Wife and I were highschool sweethearts.

I did not mean to spark this debate. I appologise whole heartedly. I was more curious if Paul had ever considered going the Open Source model and his reasons for choosing the way he went. I'm not saying I think Blesta should be Free/Open Source Software, and you shouldn't be compensated for your hard work. I was just curious. I develop and contribute to a lot of F/OSS projects. My own CMS I use strictly for my clients is 100% closed source. However, I have been considering opening it up. It does some things I have yet to find in other comparable systems, and I am very proud of it. This sense of pride trumps my business logic a lot of times in the ongoing internal debate in my mind and I think to my self "I must share this with the world!" Although in reality nobody would care, and most likely would co-exist with the many other systems out there and whither away until I stop maintaining it. I'm considering the route secforus_ehansen mentioned for another project I've been working on. I'm 24 years old, married, with two young kids (3-1/2 year old son and 2-1/2 year old daughter) and self-employed. My web design / software development / hosting / I.T. business is what puts food on the table, gas in the cars, and keeps a roof over my family's heads. Trust me I know you have to make money. :-) I really like the fact that Blesta v3 is very open for developers sake. I'm not 100% reliant on a manual, I can see a lot of the code and tweak it also. I think you have a great thing going here, Blesta team. It's open enough and closed enough to strike a great balance. Kudo's to the team.

While we're on the topic of Phillips Data Inc.'s structure... I'm curious if you've ever considered the Open Source business model? It seems to be doing well for Redhat and various other companies. P.S. I am aware of your framework and various bits that are under an open, permissive license.

I'd take it, but I'd probably sit on it another year or two and half build a site for it, but never launch it. Just have too much going on. Wife, kids, work, occasional sleep. Y'know?

I'm not looking for any more domains (I've got too many I don't use). However, I think it could be a good name for a site like lowendbox... Maybe see if they'd want it?

Yes, about a month ago. Just looked it up... May 13th. Here is a news article: http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/name-com-resets-customer-passwords-after-security-breach

Name.com had a database breach a while ago. How long ago did you sign up? I know I had to reset my password before I could log in again.

Personally I am getting what I need set up and tested and working with the v3 beta. Then when stable release comes I'll hopefully have less work to do. With that said, I do not currently use any billing system. And the lack of Stripe in v2.x is also a deal breaker for me.

That is FontAwesome, not Bootstrap. While FontAwesome is built to be used with Bootstrap, its not required. I use FontAwesome in various projects, but not Bootstrap.