We have been with Alabanza for almost a year now and have quite a few servers at their facilities. One of the great features in the DSM is that you can have Resellers. These resellers can then add accounts in real time right from their control panel. Lately many of our resellers have been asking us to automate this process so that if a user signs up on their site they'd like this users account to be created just like we do from our own site.

What we're looking for is someone that is familiar with Alabanzas CP to write a script that our Resellers can use to automate their signups. In essence what this script would do is log into the resellers control panel "click" on "add domain" and sign the user up in real time. I'm not sure if this is actually feasible or possible but I'm sure many of you out there have had the same requests.

If you think you can write this script please reply to this post.

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Being new around here I haven't checked out alabanza... seeing your post peaked my curiousity.

WOW!

You have serveral servers? $600/month... $1000!!!!! (ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS) setup... for 9 gigs of storage?

What else do you get for that that makes that price worth it?

Originally posted by rastoma
Being new around here I haven't checked out alabanza... seeing your post peaked my curiousity.

WOW!

You have serveral servers? $600/month... $1000!!!!! (ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS) setup... for 9 gigs of storage?

What else do you get for that that makes that price worth it?

It is simple accounting. Our average customer pays $15 a month for their account. Figure there are about 500 customers per server. 500 X 15 is $7,500. That is about a $6,900 profit per month per server. If you have 4 servers that would net you $331,200 PROFIT.

The servers we have contain a minimum 18 Gigs of storage.

I would DEFINITELY agree with you that Alabanza is not the cheapest place on the block, but they do have the best control panel in the industry and they have good (albeit slow) support.

If you plan to grow your company you really need to be able to automate the process and manage your customers in an orderly fashion and Alabanza definitely gives you the tools to do so. And no Alabanza DID NOT pay me to say that :cartman: .

Not to mislead anyone new in the industry, I think it's wise to also mention the above profit is not to include:

-Merchant Account Fees
-Bank Fees
-Per transaction Fees
-Cybercash (a must if you want to have the automated credit card billing feature) fees.
-Chargebacks
-Cost of exceeding monthly data transfer (easily done if you have 500 clients on a server)
-And not to mention the fact that in reality the $600/mo. box probably won't function to hot if you have 500 clients on it. (At least I know mine wouldn't)
The $895/mo. box could.

There are costs to running a business also.
I know most of us experienced hosts know this, but I didn't want to see a newbie (we were all one at one point) think this is all profit like the last post said...

AH
;)

Originally posted by alahater
Not to mislead anyone new in the industry, I think it's wise to also mention the above profit is not to include:

-Merchant Account Fees
-Bank Fees
-Per transaction Fees
-Cybercash (a must if you want to have the automated credit card billing feature) fees.
-Chargebacks
-Cost of exceeding monthly data transfer (easily done if you have 500 clients on a server)
-And not to mention the fact that in reality the $600/mo. box probably won't function to hot if you have 500 clients on it. (At least I know mine wouldn't)
The $895/mo. box could.

There are costs to running a business also.
I know most of us experienced hosts know this, but I didn't want to see a newbie (we were all one at one point) think this is all profit like the last post said...

AH
;)

We use the $895/mo. boxes plus we usually have aditional hard drives + memory. If you have a few servers at Alabanza you might be able to get a better deal at your bandwidth prices. All the other fees and costs are quite obvious and are there with any business you run online.

Im curious how alabanza works does it set up thing like jailed telnet access, cgi-bins, mysql directives, etc automatically for you or do you have to go in and configure the server manually for these things

Originally posted by successful

I would DEFINITELY agree with you that Alabanza is not the cheapest place on the block, but they do have the best control panel in the industry and they have good (albeit slow) support.


I thought Alabanza used Cpanel for administration... Is it any different than what you get from VO or Site5?

Alabanza does not use CPanel. They have their own solution that they call the "DSM" (Domain System Manager.) I've found that it is more reliable and a less buggy then CPanel, but it is alot less customizable etc.

I also thought Alabanza used Cpanel, I knew they called it something different, but I thought it was just a modified version of Cpanel.