Looking For Web Hosting Management Software

I use AWBS - Advanced Webhost Billing System - formerly DRAMS It does everything you need.

John

WHMCS and WHM AutoPilot are both popular.

Some reseller web hosting plans provide these for free.


Andrew

Yes, but if it were me I'd go with WHMCS. Almost every host I come across uses it.


Andrew

There's WHMCS, but there's also Hostbill which is excellent (and used by many top-tier hosts).
WHMCS is monthly, Hostbill is one-time.
The free stuff is all junk, to be completely honest. Lots of security issues.

Hostdime and MDD Hosting both include WHMCS licenses for "free" (part of the plan costs).

Go with WHMCS. It is less technical to use and its ease of use will be a plus for your customers.

Is there another eCommerce plugin/module for WHMCS?

Thanks in advance, Todd

WHMCS is the best and reliable software to use the web hosting management.

Go with WHMCS. The price is the best you will get but it works. We used Plesk Billing for years and it was horrible.

WHMCS can be setup within a day and will handle everything you need. You can also use it for software and member sites too but it's main strength is managing hosting infrastructure and billing. For $18.95 a month do not bother with anything that is free. WHMCS constantly maintains their software and given many hackers will try and break into your system you need to ensure the devs are active in keeping on top of security. WHMCS do. Ensure your admin part of WHMCS is behind an obscure URL and password protected with IP restrictions and only use it from a static IP. I have seen too many hosts with their admin side exposed. Ensure you have set robots.txt to not allow crawling of your WHMCS URL.

WHMCS is by far the most reliable and feature packed.

WHMCS is widely used and accepted by web hosting providers. It has a lots of features and easily integrated with WHM, C Panel and Mostly Domain registrar.

WHMCS - widely used, offered free with reseller accounts at many providers. Downside is they release buggy updates that break other stuff. Their QA team sometimes appears to be "off" at times. Small up front investment.

HostBill - Great software & developers, poor business model. Any support, even pre-sales costs money. Larger up front investment.

Ubersmith - Is way out of most peoples price range & you'll need a dedicated development team to integrate it properly.

Blesta - Seems to be up & coming however, not sure how it compares to WHMCS given the size of the WHMCS community.

ClientExec - It's alright, not as widely developed on as WHMCS.

There's also others we've looked at however, WHMCS is widely used, has a great reseller program as does ClientExec; we offer both for resellers. Thinking of switching would be a nightmare as we have a ton of custom modules to do various tasks, account creations etc.

When WHMCS releases an update, you need to be careful applying it right away as it could break things. WHMCS was also purchased by cPanel but the development/support hasn't gotten that much better...however, it is a software company, not a 24-7 tech company.

WHMCS would be the best option to start with, even ClientExec, but I believe WHMCS is more widely used.