Re: [mv] Backup-consultant for Gideon

["Gideon van Gelder" <gideon@swingmaster.nl>]

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Hi All,

That last message was meant for Ed, of course!
Sorry for the cross-post.

Best regards,
-=Gideon


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Gideon van Gelder <gideon@swingmaster.nl>
To: <minivend-users@minivend.com>
Sent: zondag 13 augustus 2000 22:36
Subject: Backup-consultant for Gideon


> Dear Ed,
> 
> We're both on the MV list for some time now and of course,
> I've seen all your great answers to various problems.
> Now here's the case: I've been doing some free-lance
> consulting for the last year for a lovely husband-wife
> business, called Steve Estes. (she is called Debbi Estes)
> Their website is at http://www.steveestes.com and click
> through to "coins for sale" to enter the MV part.
> Lately, I haven't had to deal much with them because
> things were really running quite smoothly.
> However, I'll be leaving for Australia and New Zealand
> october 22 to stay for about 8 months (sabattical year
> off). I won't have a lap top with me or anything, i'll
> be backpacking. So would you be prepared to be my backup
> consultant for that period ? I guess it's most appropriate
> for them to pay you as much as they paid me, which is
> $60 USD/hour. Please understand that this is really an
> "emergency" backup, since their ISP 
> (http://www.inetarena.com, David Neff) runs daily backups
> so if something bad happens, he'll probably be able to
> restore things. Then if he can't (he's not into MV), he
> would contact you, or you would be contacted directly
> by Debbi Estes, who does all the Internet related stuff.
> So, if they're lucky and nothing bad happens, maybe you won't 
> even hear from them at all.
> 
> It's a Linux system that runs mv 3.12 on a virtual server. 
> It's really the most basic catalog, no auto cc-processing, 
> no SQL db, just plain text-dbs. They upload stuff themselves 
> and handle order-processing themselves as well, so they only
> need you if something very strange happens. The login
> details I'd give you would give you administator rights,
> which you'd need to be able to reconfig the catalog via
> telnet, if even necessary.
> 
> The catalog itself is a trimmed-down version of the good old
> simple catalog. It was originally modified by a not very
> competent Minivend "consultant", so it's not the best
> programmed catalog, then again, it only runs on a handful
> of pages (index, with search-form, results-page, basket,
> terms of service, free-coins-page, that's it!).
> 
> Please let me know if you'd be interested to be my
> replacement for the 8 months: it really would mean a lot
> to me. Of course then I would tell you 2 or 3 minor details
> about how I handled some things, but it's really all very
> basic and *small* ;-). You'd also find Debbi very easy to
> work with: she's a very nice person.
> I'm looking forward to your reaction.
> 
> Best regards,
> -=Gideon ( http://www.SwingmasterRecords.com is my latest
>            homegrown project )

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