Shared hosting is a type of hosting where many websites are located on a single web server.
BILLmanager automates hosting operations: client registration, ordering and processing services, generating invoices, contracts, and acts of completion. The billing system can support multiple projects and legal entities.
Why do you need it
For your clients this service will provide:
- access to their website for any Internet user;
- the ability to set up your own email domains;
- the ability to store your files on a remote server.
Where to start
Shared hosting can be run without your own hardware. To do this you will need:
- Two servers (virtual or dedicated) to ensure the stability of shared hosting:
- the server for BILLmanager;
- the server to host client websites. Server resources are distributed among users. At the same time, you can sell these resources by configuring different tariff plans. If your server runs out of resources, you can buy another one and plug it into the system. No additional configuration is required.
- Software for hosting websites:
- IP address management panel: IPmanager and DNSmanager;
- hosting management panel: ISPmanager, Plesk, cPanel.
- A billing platform for payment processing.
- Agreement with the payment system.
- Website for the sale of services.
Software requirements
Each server must have an operating system from the list of supported operating systems. Read more in Server requirements.
Please note that ISPmanager Business must be installed separately from the rest of the software.
You can install IPmanager on the same server as BILLmanager. DNSmanager 6 does not support installation on the same server as other COREmanager-based products.
Read more in:
- Integration with DNSmanager;
- Integration in the IPmanager documentation;
- Integration in the DNSmanager 6 documentation;
Resources of shared hosting
For sale, shared hosting can support such types of resources as:
- traffic;
- number of websites that can be hosted within one hosting service;
- number of domains, subdomains, domain aliases;
- number of databases and the amount of space for databases;
- number of mailboxes and FTP users;
- disk space;
- free CPU resources, RAM, which affect the performance of the server;
- IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.