Hi guys
Been testing out Sentora for about a month now. Installed it on my CentOS 7 server, got everything working so far. What an awesome, free system! Love it.
So, my plan is to start a webhosting business, and I started thinking about the "register a domain" part.
Let's say I have a potential costumer, that wants to start a blog. He/she knows which domain name they want, but if they can't register a domain at my place, they'll most likely move on to the next competitor, right? They ain't got time/knowhow for registering the domain somewhere else, and altering nameserver setup to point to my nameservers.
I have the xBilling module up and running, including the frontend. I can see in the "Email Settings" of the module, that there is an email called "Renewal Reminder Message", for when a domain expires. But what I don't understand is how this is used. As far as I can see, domain registration is not possible with Sentora.
So the question: what is the best way forward? Should I hack the frontend of xBilling, and add some custom code, where I add the step of domain registration, by means of communicating with, for example, eNom's API? And will this approach play well with Sentora? Or should I split it in two different processes, where the customer gets 1 bill from me for webhosting, and 1 bill from e.g. eNom for domain registration?
Any input much appreciated.
Regards
Roy Højgaard
Been testing out Sentora for about a month now. Installed it on my CentOS 7 server, got everything working so far. What an awesome, free system! Love it.
So, my plan is to start a webhosting business, and I started thinking about the "register a domain" part.
Let's say I have a potential costumer, that wants to start a blog. He/she knows which domain name they want, but if they can't register a domain at my place, they'll most likely move on to the next competitor, right? They ain't got time/knowhow for registering the domain somewhere else, and altering nameserver setup to point to my nameservers.
I have the xBilling module up and running, including the frontend. I can see in the "Email Settings" of the module, that there is an email called "Renewal Reminder Message", for when a domain expires. But what I don't understand is how this is used. As far as I can see, domain registration is not possible with Sentora.
So the question: what is the best way forward? Should I hack the frontend of xBilling, and add some custom code, where I add the step of domain registration, by means of communicating with, for example, eNom's API? And will this approach play well with Sentora? Or should I split it in two different processes, where the customer gets 1 bill from me for webhosting, and 1 bill from e.g. eNom for domain registration?
Any input much appreciated.
Regards
Roy Højgaard
So I will investigate the heck out of this, and see if perhaps i can create a proper module for domain registration, that will communicate with eNom's API, but still utilize the database tables of Sentora in order to send the bills and such. Naturally, it should work hand in hand with the xBilling module.