Engineering notes from the team building the platform.

cPanel prices change again on 16 December 2026. Published prices for Plesk, DirectAdmin, Webuzo, Enhance and HestiaCP, what 100 and 250 accounts cost, and how to move customers safely.

Mario Marin

openDCIM 26.01 is the last release its founder will package and opendcim.org will lapse. What openDCIM did, how NetBox, Nautobot, Ralph and RackTables compare, and how to migrate.

Mario Marin

Paymenter is free, MIT-licensed hosting billing you run yourself; WHMCS starts at $34.95 a month for 250 clients with vendor support. Features, three-year cost and the WHMCS importer compared.

Mario Marin

How to bill ASIC and GPU mining colocation: committed kW, all-in rated draw and metered pass-through compared with worked examples, plus deposits, crypto payments, curtailment credits and where FluxBilling fits.

Mario Marin

Which billing systems automate cPanel and WHM, what the integration should do from create to terminate, cPanel's per-account licence prices read on 2 November 2026, and what the whole stack costs per month.

Mario Marin

All four HostBill editions as priced on 2 November 2026, what each one unlocks, what you pay after the first year for updates and support, three- and five-year totals, and how it compares with WHMCS and Blesta.

Mario Marin

The three kinds of IPAM software, open source, commercial DDI and IPAM built into hosting billing, with each option's status on 2 November 2026, the limits of a spreadsheet and what a hosting provider needs.

Mario Marin

Every Blesta licence price as published on 2 November 2026, monthly, owned and lifetime, plus add-ons, paid services, what each option costs over three and five years, and how it compares with WHMCS.

Mario Marin

How a hosting company runs a Black Friday or Cyber Monday offer that still pays in January: first-term vs recurring discounts, annual prepay, promo code limits, abuse controls, capacity and renewal price disclosure.

Mario Marin

What each DCIM tool actually does, from asset inventory and rack elevations to power, cabling, monitoring, IPAM and the billing link, the three kinds of DCIM software, and a practical way to choose.

Mario Marin

How to bill for Pterodactyl game servers with the official WHMCS module, Blesta, open source Paymenter or FluxBilling, compared on automation and price, plus why Panel 2.0 removing nests matters for every module.

Mario Marin

The four platforms most VPS hosts choose between, compared on what they virtualise, how they are licensed, which billing systems they plug into and what 5, 20 and 50 nodes cost a year at published prices.

Mario Marin