HostBill 3.9.6 Release

Another week, another exciting update from HostBill team! HostBill 3.9.6 is now available to download. What’s new?

New Orderpage:
Our orderpage collection is getting bigger – a new customizable orderpage with plan comparison table is now available.

Automatic Attachment uploads
Your clients will love this new feature – it’s time to leave 20th century file uploads and waiting for them to load after submit. Drag’n’drop attachments to a ticket and compose messages as they’re being uploaded!
Learn more at blog.hostbillapp.com

Client-Configurable bandwidth billing
Using HostBill to sell colocation? If not – you should! Your clients will be able to configure their bandwidth requirements during order – measurement method & limit – HostBill will do the maths!
Learn more at blog.hostbillapp.com

Full changelog available at: http://hostbillapp.com/changelog/

HostBill 3.9.6 Preview: Client-Configurable Bandwidth Billing

You may already know that HostBill works great with Colocation/Dedicated servers offering, allowing to measure and bill for bandwidth usage – more details can be found here: http://hostbillapp.com/features/colocation.php

With 3.9.6 we’re introducing new possibility – your clients will be able to choose their bandwidth billing method, and limits directly from cart! One mouse click in product configuration, and you can set smart product configuration.

Using this method overage rate is calculated automatically, based on pricing client selected during order.
It also allows client to upgrade to higher bandwidth limit anytime during billing cycle!

HostBill 3.9.6 Preview: Dynamic attachment uploads

Your clients will love improvement scheduled for 3.9.6 release (2012-09-28) – dynamic attachment uploads for support tickets. Just drag & drop files into upload area or choose them manually and you’re there – no more hours of waiting after ticket submit for attachments to upload. Let them load once message is being composed!

HostBill 3.9.4 Release

It’s been a busy week, so time for another great HostBill update! What’s new in HostBill 3.9.4?

freeRadius module for HostBill
3.9.4 comes with integrated freeRADIUS module – based on MySQL backend. Thinking of adding VPN hosting to your offer? RADIUS server offers countless integration options, now you can automate this part of your business with HostBill!
Learn more at: http://hostbillapp.com/features/apps/freeradius.html

ManualSSL module
You like our great SSL Orderpages, but your SSL reseller does not provide module for HostBill? Not a problem, now you can receive emails for certificates that require manual setup.

Free OpenSRS reseller accounts for HostBill customers!
Thanks to our partnership with OpenSRS, HostBill Owned license users are entitled to apply for a low cost OpenSRS reseller account.
With no setup fees and domain pricing as low as $9.53 for .com it’s a great opportunity to jump into domain/ssl market – with all tools already included in HostBill:
OpenSRS Domain registration module
OpenSRS SSL Module
To register for your reseller account visit Partners section in our client area (after logging in).

Full changelog available at: http://hostbillapp.com/changelog/

HostBill 3.9.2 Release

Time for the new update from HostBill team: HostBill 3.9.2 has just been released. What’s new?

New orderpage: Premade plans slider
Another great slider to our collection – this one lets you define custom “stacks” in orderpage settings.
Example stack A: WordPress, Stack B: Drupal, Stack C: Virtuemart etc.
Stacks appear on the orderpage below slider, once clicked it sets slider to the predefined position.
Limit support questions: How much ram would my WordPress install need?

New orderpage: SSL Certificates v2
Our already great orderpage for SSL Certificates just got better!

OnApp module updates: “vCPU” feature
Tired of clients asking about explaining CPU Priority to them? Use our vCPU feature that will bind fixed priority to CPU cores, so your clients won’t need to worry about setting the proper value.

Full changelog available at: http://hostbillapp.com/changelog/

HostBill 3.9.0 Release

HostBill 3.9.0 has just been released – make sure to check what’s new:

Updated SolusVM module
An All-In-One powerful integration, allowing you to sell your SolusVM resources as :
– single VPS machines
– virtual datacenters – give resources to clients and let them create VM’s on their own
– reseller accounts
– DIY flexible packages – where your client chooses what resources he will need during signup
Learn more at http://hostbillapp.com/features/apps/solusvm.html

New Client area Theme variation
We’ve updated our already perfect client section with number of tweaks and improvements – to make it even better!
Learn more at in this blog post.

New Order Page: 4comparison boxes – OneStep
Another beautiful order page template to our rich collection – view all available orderpages

ByteCP Provisioning module
Developed by the company ByteCP hosting control panel is getting better each day. Now you can automatically provision hosting accounts from HostBill with ByteCP.
Learn more at http://bytecp.com/

HostBill Auto-Upgrade & Auto-Patch
Now you will be able to upgrade your HostBill billing system with one mouse click – no downloads, extracts etc.
Learn more at here.

Full changelog available at: http://hostbillapp.com/changelog/

HostBill 3.9 Preview: New Client area variation: “NextGen Clean”

Our NextGen theme released few months ago changed industry outlook on client section of service provider websites. It’s time to make it even better!
With HostBill 3.9 we’re introducing new variation of this popular theme, called “Nextgen Clean” – we’ve made it nicer to eye with pixel-perfect attention to details, take a look on some screenshots or watch short style walk-trough:

A few screenshots:




Coming up with 3.9: HostBill AutoUpgrade & AutoPatch

HostBill is well known of its outstanding pace of development and rapid new releases. We’ve decided to make process of upgrade easier to HostBill users, that’s why with release of HostBill 3.9 (2012-09-07) we’re introducing HostBill AutoUpgrade & AutoPatch

This Plugin (enabled by default) periodically checks for new HostBill versions & patches – if a new version is available, administrators will see following notification:


Upgrading to latest HostBill version is simple as clicking one button:

Quick video commentary:
– Plugin checks for the latest version available
– After confirming upgrade new HostBill is automatically downloaded
– Archive is safely extracted
– Database is being updated to the latest version

HostBill Security Patch

Within last few hours we’ve been notified about potential LFD security threat that affects HostBill installations, caused by one of used libraries.
Although its severity really depends on server configuration we cannot leave our users at risk – we take security very seriously.

Download patch from here: http://hostbillapp.com/clientarea/patches/hostbill_patch3.8.0_3426.zip (for version 3.8).

Patching process is simple – extract archive contents in main HostBill directory, no db updates/install is required.

HostBill 3.8.0 archive available in our client area has also been patched, please upgrade to latest version if you’re using < 3.8

HostBill 3.8.0 Release

HostBill 3.8.0 has just been released, make sure to check what’s new:

OnApp & OnApp CDN: Pre-Paid Metered billing
Let your customers pay upfront for resources. Invoices can be generated after account credit will reach your threshold.

New module: Observium
Now you can add bandwidth billing through Observium, an alternative to previously released Cacti integration. Allow clients to browse graphs, estimate & bill for overages. Learn more at https://hostbillapp.com/products-services/observium/

New, Easy Development Kit
Building module for HostBill has never been easier – no object oriented programming skills required – simple function calls, well documented at http://dev.hostbillapp.com/procedural-dev-kit/ allows you to create fully functional module with a few lines of code.

2 new orderpages
– Gauge sliders – innovative orderpage, ideal for cloud & VPS hosters.
– Dedicated servers – full screen. Perfect for dedicated servers & colocation products.

Full changelog: http://hostbillapp.com/changelog/