Michael

Another thing that would have to be done for this is a logging mechanism to keep track of when staff users access client profiles.

That's the catch 22, the more licenses we sell, the more we can put into development. I try not to talk about things too much that are far down the road, and instead focus on the things we are or will shortly be working on but we have enough planned to keep us very busy for a long while. And, the more people that get behind us the quicker things will start to happen.
 
The biggest thing now is to get 3.0 out. I expect things to pick up nicely from there. It's going to be an interesting year.

Not a problem, lol. If it's one thing we do it's think, think, think, think, think, act.
 
 
Congrats! I have #3 due next month, oldest is 5. Starting your own business is a challenge, that's for sure.
 
 
Thanks, that's what we were aiming for! That, and a little transparency in this closed source, wacky billing market.

6 hour drive is not very close, this is true! 

Some things can make sense (logic and business) to be both "free" and "open source." I don't think it's in everyone's best interest for Blesta to be both.

"Open source" didn't used to mean free, but it's gained that connotation (see FOSS).

We have a unofficial facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/Blestafans

 

Please remember we are not staff at Blesta and Phillips Data inc. 

 

We are fans of this fantastic software and we will keep you updated.

 

Hopefully paul, Cody and Tyson like it and be admins and can answer your questions and etc.

 

But only time will tell

This page is more applicable - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software
 
 
Blesta is not free, and cannot be redistributed. It's made available under a commercial license. To contrast, we have released minPHP (The framework for which Blesta v3 is built) as OSS (Open Source Software) under the MIT license.

According to Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source
 
 
Blesta isn't open source at all, rather the vast majority of the code is unencoded and available to edit for your own use. While we choose to make the code available, there's a difference between that and open source software.

Not going to lie I was thinking of using Blesta before, but WHM** had more features, etc... So erm I took that way to get started, but then WHM** told me they had a new update for security recently and I thought "For F**k sake another one..." Then I found out it broke something which is important since what's a webhost without domains?"
 
So I thought to myself "I need to get away from this company, came across Blesta saw the deal $99, spoke to Paul and found out they did the refuge promotion as-well  but one or the other, so I saved up and them brought it.
 
But I was talking to our friends at FreshRostedHosting (FRH) and they was also thinking of moving and saw I was looking in moving to Blesta and informed me they was two considering and just before myself brought it .
 
Now I have no regrets and I believe this is the best billing system I have used and this is the step forward they needed to get people in..
 
- Billing systems going downhill.
- More features
- Stable 
- Secure
= Blesta 100%

Trust me Paul, you will have at least 50% by next year and maybe more. I believe more re-sellers will be selling your product in hosting packs and on licensing sites.
 
Myself I'm going to put it in some of our packages free (Resellers) and as I offer the other popular one at a price. This I hope will move customers to Blesta.
 
Also you know my other brand I'm doing which is going to be Blesta only for a long time then I might add more licenses to the shop as you gave me that idea to compete but I want to dedicate it to Blesta
 
I do believe you will be the main competitor shortly

AFAIK, Blesta has been around for many years. I assume at this point that it is a relatively stable company...

Being a small operation, the $99 fee was one of the main reasons I chose Blesta in the beginning, but then I found something awesome!
 
I was using SPB** for a while because it has some cool features-- free (*free version allows for a maximum of 25 customers*). But then I started actually using it, and the functionality became a problem even though it was free. I mean, it's not "bad" it just wasn't doing what I wanted, nor was it as easy to manage as I would have preferred.
 
Lower priced, slightly limited, options are nice too. Not that you shouldn't get paid! Just works for the little guys too!
 
But it does make me feel a little more at ease, knowing Blesta is powered by a fully legitimate company. The Internet has all kinds- if you know what I mean!

Good questions! We are all full time, and work in the same building in Tustin, California. A lot of other companies do really well with remote staff, but we find that being able to communicate with each other frequently, as you only can in the same location, has been a really good thing.
 
The $99 promo right now is a great deal and it is really cheap. The price will be going up when we release v3 officially and we'll announce pricing soon. It will be similar to our largest competitor, nothing ridiculous. Having a full time staff, and office rent is not cheap, especially in California. But, if we can capture a good 30-40% of the market in the next year or two I think we'll be doing really well.

So you have the Blesta logo on several pages of your site, except for the actual product page?? http://licensecart.com/site/blesta lol

The Markdown hosting? I crashed my dev server the weekend I made that one... lol ooops. I had it auto updating too frequently, and the database got hung up, and bam! Server down. Fun times. Works great now, so I'm happy. 

Thanks mate, few more to do and then Blesta V3 new plans for resellers
 
 
 
Edit: Site may be down for a few people, had to move it to my billing.cubicwebs.com account to get the billing.licensecart.com working. shouldn't be long I can view it but I'm using level3 Public DNS.

Right off to bed now
 
Done a bit tonight.
 
http://licensecart.com/site/
 
Pages done:
- Index
- Products
- Blesta (From products page)
- About (From Company tab)
 
All in a day wow! haha

Wow love them mate nice tools like the Html one where you can see it next to you

Right off to bed now
 
Done a bit tonight.
 
http://licensecart.com/site/
 
Pages done:
- Index
- Products
- Blesta (From products page)
- About (From Company tab)
 
All in a day wow! haha

Nice idea mate, but sadly the bootstap lightview doesn't support it might do in the future haha, one thing I hate about not being a developer

Though I can "nitpick" some more if you want! lol
 
Now that I'm playing with that, I kind of wish you scroll left and right in the preview window... so you can scroll through the screenshots without getting out of the preview screen. Facebook has me spoiled on scrolling through pictures that way.. Which, then would probably mean you'd have to add the caption for each image when previewing them so you can know what you're looking at while scrolling through them.
 
This of course isn't a big deal, I just have a preference certain things..you know? but I do like what you're doing!!

Thank you mate
 
 
thank you ;D haha

My thought on the homepage? I like it. It's simple, but still looks nice.
 
What would I like to see? The screenshots on your homepage; they should be clickable so you can zoom in and see them better!
 
But I like what you're doing so far!

I think you've got a nice name, and the website looks to be starting to come together. Awesome!