Visit http://wiki.hostbillapp.com/index.php?title=Custom_Modules if you havent already – we’ve finally updated this page with working examples, so it will be easier to understand. Now you’ll be able to see for yourself how powerful HostBill modules can be. Let us know if you need more examples.

And here is little bonus from Geek&Poke – how we love to write documentation here in HostBill:

This post will not be directly related to HostBill itself – but hey – its developers blog!

I’ve recently stumbled upon great tool called Zen Coding – if you’re using HTML in your everyday work – this little fellow can save you a LOT of time – just requires some practice, for ex:

div#page>div.logo+ul#navigation>li*3>a

will be expanded into:

<div id="page">
        <div class="logo"></div>
        <ul id="navigation">
                <li><a href=""></a></li>
                <li><a href=""></a></li>
                <li><a href=""></a></li>                
        </ul>
</div>

Make sure to see it in action:

Due to growing interest in this type of cooperation with us, today we’re announcing that our reseller program is available! You can now add cheap HostBill license as an addon to your hosting/vps/servers offering – starting from $ 59,75 USD/month. Please note that we allow reselling only for internal hosting customers – and we track them by IP you’ll be asked to provide – so package containing only HostBill itself is prohibited.

Full details to be found here: http://hostbillapp.com/resellers/

Hello – we’re recently getting lot of demanding on documentation – how to create custom gateways for HostBill. We try to answer every request for gateways/hosting control panels/ domain registrars and add such modules into HostBill, however we also want to give such possibility to other developers.

Here:  http://wiki.hostbillapp.com/index.php/Devkit_Gateways you can grab latest documentation and examples on: How to create custom payment gateway for HostBill (this includes Credit Card processors)

Remember our all good friend Steve Balmer? WebDevelopers – start developing gateways!

This is just a begining – we’re preparing devkits for hosting modules, domain modules and addon modules for HostBill, so stay tuned for that!

Hello again – this time lets take a look at one of new HostBill adminarea features – system statistics – theese are graphical representations of HostBill important statistics. Good thing to know is that if you feel sth is missing here we can add new one within a minutes for you! Let us know what graphs you’d like to see there.

(click on image to zoom it)

Now we know that VPS Managment Software can be done better, it’s time to make improvements. We at HostBill feel responsible for these improvements  also.  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/Penenthe I think is better.

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

VPS Managment Software API comparison - vePortal vs SolusVM vs Panenthe

Please note we don’t judge any VPS manager 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.

I though we should put some clarification on that. What manual mode is? If you browse hostbill admin section, you can notice checkboxes on top and bottom of account and domain details screen

Manual Mode

I’d like to explain shortly what it does.
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We’re making last tests and fixes before releasing HostBill to wider than beta-testers audience. Every module is being tested in live mode cause we want to be sure that everything is working properly in mentioned release day. Exact date of release will be posted soon so stay tuned for that. On behalf of all HB developers i think i can tell that all of us simply cannot wait for this day and getting more opinions on our product;)