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First go at creating a Blesta v3 module for interfacing with our (commercial) server provisioning software. Once the server order has been approved the customer can login to the client area and choose which operating system profile to install on the server, and specify root passwords. For security reasons the passwords entered are only used during installation, and not stored in Blesta. That's also the reason the customer has to wait until the order has been approved before provisioning the server, instead of entering the details during the order process. The installation progress can be monitored Data traffic can be viewed provided the server is connected to a managed Ethernet switch The customer can power up/down/reset his server provided it has a IPMI/BMC/iLO/DRAC/AMT management chip or is connected to a remote power switch such as those made by APC. In addition to provisioning dedicated servers, VPSes are supported as well. Can automatically let it create Citrix Xenserver, Proxmox VE 3, oVirt and Vmware vSphere VPSes, using the specifications configured in the package settings. Dedicated servers can be assigned manually by staff approving the order, or assigned automatically from a predefined pool of available servers. For Xenserver, Proxmox and oVirt we offer a HTML 5 console that only requires a recent browser, and not any additional plug-ins. Still have to clean up the templates a bit, and give them a more Blesta look & feel, as they are based on the module we offer for another billing panel. Also the data traffic feature currently only shows pretty graphs, but doesn't actually bill overage.

This made me laugh so much I was in tears haha... Come on I had to share it haha

Ah yes, gmail... For when you want to send a message to the NSA but don't have their email address.

If you want the module to do something useful it costs money. The NOC-PS management server costs money The module that is needed to connect Blesta to the NOC-PS server is free. But having the Blesta module without the server, is like having the Blesta cPanel module, but no cPanel server.

That made me laugh. haha

The provisioning software used by the module is commercial, and costs start at 100 EUR / year. See http://www.noc-ps.com/ The Blesta module itself will be available at no extra cost, once we cleaned it up.

Hey gualter, I used hostbill (never made it to production though, too many bugs) and I even spent $xx,xxx in custom development with the hostbill dev (powerdns, hardware manager & ipam improvements, etc). Saying it's a well documented software is a joke - half the documentation is outright wrong, the other half is out of date. Ever week they'd push out a new release and every week something that was previously working would break. So yes, we did send in a lot of tickets. And none were answered within a reasonable time frame imho & I am a very easy going Canadian guy with a lot of patience. Plus I was a big fan of the software that claimed to do everything I needed/wanted and the dev team were happy to take my money and do more stuff that I wanted! How awesome is that?! Except, while coding was fast, it was sloppy. Every week something broke. I offered to pay a monthly fee for priority support. Then he instituted the pay per ticket policy... and then didn't live up to his end of the policy! I have two hostbill licenses that I am not using right now because of this fiasco. I think that you and I purchased at a time when we got everything for free... including the ability to use the API ourselves. Now they've cut the software up into chunks, so that it is near unusable without spending significant $$. And without an API, there will be no third party modules or custom integrations. The longevity of hostbill at this point must be seriously questioned when you look at all these changes. Plus, from a security standpoint you should be very afraid using that software. No one is going to pay $99 to submit a bug report... and the security folks who have looked into hostbill coding have pretty much gasped in horror. So, use at your own risk and take every precaution you can.... So to sum it up again, if hostbill did what it claimed and had usable docs, it would be worth the cost they want now. If the software did what it claimed, had usable docs and was run by a company who offered superior support, it would be worth at least 10x what it is now. I'd _gladly_ pay $10k upfront and $100/m for that software *IF* if did all that/had all that. But it doesn't, won't and can't (because the owners are nuts I believe). ubersmith wants some retarded money too ($2500/m for our business) and they are a rock solid team with rock solid software. But they are NOT worth that money, because their software has horrible integrations and doesn't really do much of anything. Blesta will, in just a few releases I believe, surpass ubersmith. All blesta needs is Onapp integration, dedicated server module, device manager, ip manager and perhaps monitoring and they will be well on their way to competing with ubersmith. I'd gladly consider sponsoring development of these modules with blesta too... I wonder if we could get a group of us to do so and convince the blesta team to concentrate their efforts a bit more on that end.

It won't happen. It's the same reason everyone has a qwerty keyboard and not something more efficient like dvorak.

I think most people would agree that their software is pretty advanced, and becoming more targeted to enterprise. The problem is that they completely destroyed their reputation. They didn't start out on a good foot either, the first version was a complete rip from WHMCS.. the staff area looked the same, and the database schema was pretty much identical. (I talked to Matt and Aaron from WHMCS directly at HostingCon in Austin about this). They also stole our software license agreement. Talented developers? Yes. Ethical businessmen? No.

Yeah I found it after some digging it popped up. Very nice. Outlook or gmail...... hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Oh my pricing comment was with everything included. None of this "pay for each module" bullshit.

If HB kept their prices around $300 and didn't change prices every other day and didn't charge for support, they would be much higher up there for the higher-end dedicated/colo stuff like Ubersmith, but again the issue lies in the owner's bipolar business practices. If you have to wake up every morning asking yourself if your house loan is randomly going to change this pay period, you need to get the hell away as fast as possible.

Sorted now (I think)

I saw a similar story on this recently, I just didn't think the Ћ character was part of the UTF-8 set already.. interesting. Don't think it should be a new letter in the 26 letter alphabet though.