As good as shared web hosting is there comes a time when a fast growing website needs its own stand alone resources and a more flexible solution. If you are one of our resellers you can now offer the power of dedicated servers to your customers (and attract bigger sites) by selling and managing dedicated servers directly through HostPay. As well as dedicated servers you can also cross-sell server backups and cPanel Manager as extras. Dedicated servers allow you to attract larger clients, up sell fast growing clients, increase ARPU, decrease churn and expand your product portfolio.
Features include:
• Linux or Windows OS
• Dual Core or Quad Core processors
• Monthly or annual contracts
• Dell & Intel technology
• Unlimited bandwidth
• Your own IP address (x2)
• Full root access
• Remote server reboot
There are no minimum monthly commitments expected from you and if you don’t sell a dedicated server you don’t pay for anything. They are essentially pay as you go!
Getting started
This feature has been set as ‘off’ by default, if you would like to turn it on and start selling dedicated servers through HostPay, simply log in to your Reseller Control Centre and within HostPay click on the new icon ‘Dedicated Server Products’. Click the check box to turn it on.
Once you have activated selling dedicated servers within HostPay, you will be shown all the dedicated server products you can sell (along with cPanel and server backups) plus set the prices you want to charge.
Because of the costs involved and to help you prevent fraud, servers are not automatically setup when ordered. If a customer places an order for a dedicated server you will receive a message when you login to your control panel which will contain a special link to process the order. Once the dedicated server order has been processed your customer can manage their dedicated server via an automatic login link to the Dedicated Server control panel, found in their HostPay end user control panel. Your customers will be able to remotely reboot their machine and view bandwidth graphs in HostPay.
What is HostPay?
HostPay is a highly customisable shopping cart 100% free for all Heart Internet Resellers. It allows you to sell web hosting, domains, dedicated servers and add-on products to end users through your website, as well as registering and transferring domains; activating web hosting packages in real time and selling a range of add-on products. Read more about HostPay.
Fantastic!!! This will make it a lot easier to sell these products now – Keep up the good work
One suggestion when you select a domain name and add it to the basket it then takes you to the web hosting page which lists all the hosting packages it would be a good idea to allow the customer to select if they want dedicated server or virtual hosting in between the choosing of a domain name and the listing of hosting packages.
I don’t agree.
If a new customer wants to order a dedicated server, it should be separate from all other products. Once it is added to the basket (or after the order is complete), they can then choose to order or transfer a domain.
OR of course they can order the domain first, create an account and then order a dedicated server!
Jon
Jon
I agree with what you say apart from we want the customer experiance to be a smooth as possible to avoid them getting fed up and going else where. My only concern is it’s a bit clumsey if they have to creat an account order a domain name then start again and order a server. It would be nice if the whole process could be streamlined.
I have just moved one of my sites across to dedicated server. You can see the increase in search performance using Google Webmaster Tools.