HostBill – Multiple possibilities for developers

Want to build a module for HostBill? Not a problem!

We’ve been working recently on DevKits, documentation and examples so you can integrate virtually anything with HostBill now!

Whats possible?
– Hosting/App/Provisioning modules
– Connecting forms with provisioning modules
– Payment Gateways
– Plugins
– Using API
– Domain Registrars
– Custom Product Types (work in progress)

Stay tuned for next updates – I’m off  trying to hook up coffee machine API with HostBill 😉

Kris

Registration Blacklist Addon

Backstory

We were getting a lot of fraud orders with public emails (gmail, yahoo, etc). All registration with public email service are blocked.

You can block registration from certain domain too. Please download our plugin 🙂

Download & Install

  1. In order to activate the plugin go to Settings→ Modules→ Plugins → Inactive, find and activate Registration Blacklist plugin.
  2. Once the plugin is activated you will be directed to Settings→ Modules→ Plugins to configure the module according to the documentation. 

Full OnApp 2.1RC4 module hotfix

HostBill users recently reported issue with OnApp 2.1RC4 module.

Problem:
When creating billing plan using API it’s not possible to create machine as a client, as OnApp throws HTTP500 + bad response error.

Solution:
We’ve created patch for OnApp Full-Featured module 2.1. To apply it please download your copy of module again from our client area, and extract archive contents in main HostBill directory.

Patch drawbacks:
This patch hard-codes clients’ cpu-shares to unlimited (it’s not setting cpu-shares limit in OnApp), and for new machines created from HostBill client area it sets cpu-share to 1, despite of slider settings.

Please note:
This is temporary patch, once OnApp will fix this bug with next RC/Stable version we will upload regular version of module with working CPU-Shares limit.

Coming soon: Dedicated Server & VPS Order Pages!

We’ve prepared two new order pages coming in the next release:

  • Dedicated Server order page


You can sell dedicated servers with our new order page. Customers can adjust:

CPU, RAM, Storage, Traffic, Network Settings, Software Settings, Remote Reboots and much more.

  • VPS Hosting order page

New version of popular slider has been added to next version.

Do you have some suggestions? Let us know! Please comment

End Of Shift Report Form

Backstory

When someone finish shift every manager should know what has been done during the shift. This addon enables employee to write a report with closed/resolved tickets during his/her shift. Usage of this addon is not only for support staff. You can make usage of it for support department, sales department or developers.

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Support Tickets: Custom Fields

Backstory

Running hosting company support is critical. You need to decrease number of replies for customers to get problems solved.

You very often ask clients for:

  • root password for VPS
  • version of software they are running
  • upload the necessary files

This is why we have added new feature: Custom Fields. Your customers can immediately add additional information when new ticket is created.

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Resell SSL Certificates with Enom

What is Enom?
eNom, Inc. is a domain name registrar and Web hosting company that also sells other products closely tied to domain names, such as SSL certificates, e-mail services, and Website building software.

The backstory
Ordering, reissuing, renewing SSL certificates is a painful process and we thought that we could help here 🙂
We knew we had to create new order page certain for SSL Certificates
as ordering certificates is a three step-process and current pages simply don’t fit here.

So how does it work?

During order customer picks one of the certificates and HostBill asks for:

* CSR
* registrar details
* email address that approve email will be sent to

All details are used to issue the certificate.

When it comes to managing certificates the admin part of HostBill supports most of the features provided by Enom that include:

– show CSR
– download certificate
– reissue certificate
– check status of a certificate

This addon makes it very easy to order, issue, reissue and manage certificates.
We hope you find it as useful as we do.
More at: http://hostbillapp.com/features/apps/enomssl.html

Price:$9.95 / One time fee Order now

Launch: New Hosting module for QuickMachines

What is QuickMachines?
QuickMachines is a Xen based VPS control panel with clean and easy interface.

More information about QuickMachines at:
http://quickmachinesvm.com

In 5 steps we have described initial configuration of HostBill for QuickMachines.

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QuickMachines & HostBill: Generate API KEY, add new server
http://cdn.hostbillapp.com/QuickMach…ll_add_app.swf

HostBill: Configure product & enable automation for QuickMachines
http://cdn.hostbillapp.com/QuickMach…ll_add_app.swf

HostBill: Place an order for a VPS
http://cdn.hostbillapp.com/QuickMach…rder_a_vps.swf

HostBill: Managing VPS from Admin interface
http://cdn.hostbillapp.com/QuickMach…Create_VPS.swf

HostBill: Managing VPS from Client interface
http://cdn.hostbillapp.com/QuickMach…lient_area.swf
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