Engineering notes from the team building the platform.

Every Clientexec plan read from the vendor on 12 October 2026: what the leases and hosted plans cost over one and three years, why owned licences ended, and what free really means.

Mario Marin

Provisioning, renewals, card charges and reminders first; refunds, fraud calls and data-destroying terminations last. A step-by-step guide to automating a hosting business without losing control of it.

Ilinca Bostan

Twelve hosting billing platforms compared on licence, deployment, published price and release activity, read from each vendor's own site on 14 October 2026.

Mario Marin

NetBox, Nautobot, Ralph, openDCIM and RackTables checked on 12 October 2026: licences, latest releases, maintenance signals, and the billing, provisioning and power gaps hosting providers hit.

Mario Marin

IP addresses are stock you sell, provision and reclaim. What an IPAM records, how it differs from DNS and DHCP, the five ways an IP spreadsheet fails, and a checklist for VPS, dedicated and colo hosts.

Ilinca Bostan

Most hosting SLAs are marketing documents never designed to be executed. They work until a real outage, when you find out the promise is either unenforceable or ruinous.

Mario Marin

Dedicated pricing usually gets set by copying a competitor or adding a percentage to hardware cost. Both are wrong in ways you will not notice for a year.

Mario Marin

"Payment failed" is a category, not a reason. Underneath sit seven different events with different recovery rates — and most dunning sequences are written for the wrong half.

Ilinca Bostan

Annual billing is the most reliable retention lever in hosting and most providers offer it badly. Two months free is a convention, not an analysis — and often wrong in both directions.

Ilinca Bostan

Every WHMCS self-hosted and Cloud price for 2026, what the 1 January increase added, and what 250, 500 and 1,000 clients cost a year — read from whmcs.com on 25 September 2026.

Mario Marin

Most providers carry legacy customers below cost because raising the price feels more dangerous than absorbing the loss. It usually is not — and it usually only needs to reach forty people.

Ilinca Bostan

The first datacenter is simple. The second breaks the assumption that an IP address, a price and a piece of hardware are properties of a service rather than properties of a place.

Mario Marin