Reseller Hosting

Web Hosting

  • We have one reseller account costing $10 per month.
  • Seven paid accounts are hosted on it, at $30 per year each.
  • The clickforcharity/directsponsor/satoshihost and other sites are thus cost-free.

It’s currently done manually (personal service!) but I asked the host support and got this reply:

Are you looking at offering your end-users VPS offers or shared hosting accounts (which would be setup in your reseller accounts)?

For the shared / hosting accounts,

DirectAdmin does have an API -- https://www.directadmin.com/api.php
As well as you can use something like WHMCS or Blesta to manage orders/invoices/payments as well

For the VPS side,

We do have a API for this, but it is more on the VPS management side, VPS purchase/creation is not available via the API currently
We do have a module for WHMCS as well,

admin side: https://i.drop.cm/fd8cec6e3230b850d0857fd0d.png
client side: https://i.drop.cm/8d3d2346fa9de857339419c72.png

For the VPS plans we can offer you discounts as well when reselling the plans onto your end customers 
Ticket ID: #661000

The billing systems are either expensive or open source and only Box Billing seems to be maintained. Also we are working with satoshi and not necessarily fitting people in to a plan system. Really we need our own. Thinking about it, that was inevitable if we are going to disrupt the industry, or even just be different and remain obscure.

This need not be huge and complicated either. All we need is

  • a running balance that gets debited at intervals
  • customer can top up at any time
  • We can set the amount and the interval that the deductions are made.
  • That amount can be later coded to be attached to usage meters perhaps, to automate it.
  • system sends out warnings at certain preset low balances.

See also Webhost Pricing

Other

myownfreehost.net – we have an account using http://nimno.eu/ which allows us to give free hosting accounts. Users can upgrade using internal links which will make them customers of ifastnet and we get some % of that, or they could use satoshihost. This makes 3 levels: Free – nothing to do or pay, “Free”: doing tasks or Paid hosting. I set up http://church.nimno.eu/ to try it out and one “customer” made by Kelvin.

  • resellerspanel.com also has a free reseller account available.
  • silicomnetwork.com is very cheap and might be worth using if we get problems with the existing one. They also have a lifetime reseller account, and sell permanent hosting from 10 dollars. Strange… but they said “We have been offering services for more than 25 years, you can verify with archive.org” so maybe its real! They have shared hosting from $3 per year so this could be part of the “free” offering for tasks. Even this has lightspeed server with LS cache too so good for anyone with wordpress.

Domain Reseller

It’s really preferable (from the user’s PoV) to register your domains yourself, because that way you’re in full control of your domain. If you fall out with your hosting provider you can just go to your domain reistrar and point your domain elsewhere. You can’t do that if your domain is in the same account as your hosting! For this reason we will recommend porkbun.com and will only add in domain reg to the interface if it appears that we are losing sales by not providing it.