I was wondering if anyone has any experience with shell account hosting?

The big questions I have...

1.) Is there a good way to handle the provisioning automatically?
2.) Is there a way I could do this with our existing infastructure of whmcs?
3.) What ways are out there to limit resources or to at least alert on it?
4.) Any needs to stay safe?

I know they are kind of vauge, but I'm still in research mode here so any insight and information on the topic would be very much appreciated.

Thanks!

What type of things would your shell hosting allow?

There are lot more things involved in shell hosting , so outline the things that what type of thing you will be allowing and at what extent. However the things can be done through WHMCS ( billing only )and ofcourse security is the next part to it

@woods01

I'm not entirely sure what services and things we are going to allow yet. I'm still in the very early stages of research to find out what the norms are, how we can offer something different that people want, with out giving away the stability of the server.

I always loved the idea of hosting a mud server. But I was never able to figure out how people went about provisioning these things. Surely they are not doing it by hand for every order.

@enetcloud-ceo

From what I can tell, there is no magic box that will provision things for us. I imagine we can setup some sort of script that will handle that for us, but my starting concern was how we are going to deliver the services to the end user.

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I'm in the very early stages of doing research. I'm trying to figure out how we can do things, what is common out there and such. Security and managing a server is not so much of the problem, as I have been doing this type of work for years, on hundreds of systems.

I'd like to use whmcs, since it can handle our billing, support, cpanel hosting provisioning, along with dns registration. I've used these things quite a bit before so I'm fairly comfortable with it all. The shell account hosting is new, and where I'm busy trying to pick up the slack.

I've done some looking at other shell hosting and see they are using whmcs as well for their billing, but I'm unsure if they setup their accounts with it too.