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Cpanel: Traffic&Disk Usage Monitor

Creating invoices and sending notification to the clients if they go over their Disk/Traffic limits is very common.

Why not put some magic here and write a tool to automate this task?

Yes we did that! You will get a list of all accounts which reached their limits for Bandwidth or Disk space.

For each client you can:

  1. Set price and create invoice
  2. Send warning notification
  3. Email customer
  4. Suspend account

this and more in the next version 🙂

cPanel:DataSync – Data synchronization between cPanel and HostBill

cPanel:DataSync connects with Server and synchronizes all data (domains, usernames, etc) between Cpanel and HostBill.

cPanel:DataSync

    • Checks if HostBill:Account match cPanel:Account (Account examplec has respective account examplec located at cPanel server)
    • Checks if HostBill:Account:DomainName matches cPanel:Account:DomainName (Account examplec with domain example.com has respective account examplec with domain example.racom located at cPanel server)
    • Imports accounts into HostBill (Import account if accounts located at cPanel server do not exist in HostBill )


Watch Video: Cpanel:DataSync


Price: FREE

Install Instructions:

Download addon Cpanel:DataSync

Go to /public_html/includes/modules/Other directory and extract ZIP archive.

Go to Settings>>Modules>>Plugins and activate module

CSV Data Exporter

Export data from HostBill to CSV. With this addon you can export:

1. Invoices
2. Transactions
3. Accounts
4. Clients
5. Domains

Price: FREE

Install Instructions: Go to Settings>>Modules>>Plugins

Dedicated Server Addon

If you own or resell a few dedicated servers spread across different collocations, you probably know the pain of managing contacts for them, or going through dozens of emails to find login details or hardware specifications. Well, worry no more, as now you can have all that information in one place – in HostBill!

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vePortal vs SolusVM vs Panenthe

Now that we know that VPS Management Software can be done better, it’s time to make improvements. We at HostBill also feel responsible for these improvements and we would like to have better API.

HyperVM took big share of VPS management software. When I compare HyperVM to current solutions like vePortal / SolusVM / Panenthe I think it’s better.

We would like to provide full VPS management, not poor solution that most of the billing softwares deliver by default. And they call it “great software”.

VPS Managment Software API comparison - vePortal vs SolusVM vs Panenthe

FeaturePanentheSolusVMvePortal
1Create VPSYesYesYes
2Reboot VPSNoYesYes
3Shutdown/Suspend VPSYesYesYes
4List TemplatesNoYesNo
5Suspend VPSYesYesYes
6Destroy VPSYesYesYes
7Change HostnameNoNoYes
8Get Status of VPSYesYesYes
9Add IP addressNoNoNo
10Change Root PasswordNoNoYes

Please note we don’t judge any VPS managers, we just compare API. We would like to have all VPS managers integrated into HostBill soon.

Just one thing missing – Xen support. Our customers need this feature. Stable and good VPS managers with Xen support. We are counting on you!

Developers, Developers, Developers work hard on your Panels.  You can listen Steve Ballmer and his famous developer’s song.

Announcing HostBill v.1.0 Official Release Date

It’s official now – 17.11.2009 – first public available version of HostBill will be released. It will be available to download for free from our clientarea. You’ll be able to use it for free for three months or until you gather five customers with it – so it’s perfect for companies beginning their adventure with hosting as well as the ones who want to test it before paying for it. For full feature list of version 1.0.0 please visit Features section of our website, or our Forum.