Engineering notes from the team building the platform.

How modern hosting providers automate provisioning end-to-end — the API patterns, idempotency, error handling, and webhooks that turn an order into a live server.

Ilinca Bostan

A complete guide to dunning management for hosting providers — retry strategies, pre-dunning, communication best practices, and recovering revenue lost to failed payments.

Mario Marin

How hosting providers can automate VAT, GST, and US sales tax across borders — nexus, digital service rules, reverse-charge, validation, and invoicing.

Ilinca Bostan

A no-nonsense PCI DSS compliance checklist for hosting providers — SAQ types, tokenization, network segmentation, logging, and how to keep your scope as small as possible.

Mario Marin

A practical guide to recurring billing for hosting providers in 2026 — pricing models, smart retries, dunning, proration, tax automation, and the metrics that matter most for sustainable MRR growth.

Ilinca Bostan

Smart Server Allocation: How CPU and Storage Equivalences Automate Hardware Matching→

Rigid hardware matching wastes inventory. Learn how CPU and storage equivalence rules let your billing platform automatically match dedicated server orders to compatible hardware.

Mario Marin

Auto-Discovering Hardware and Network Ports: SNMP, IPMI, and Redfish in Your Billing Platform→

Manually entering server specs and switch ports is slow and error-prone. Learn how SNMP, IPMI, and Redfish auto-discovery pulls hardware data directly from your devices into your billing platform.

Mario Marin

Hardware Inventory Management for Hosting Providers: Track Every Asset→

Managing hardware inventory in hosting means tracking servers, blades, network devices, and spare parts alongside billing. Learn how an integrated inventory system eliminates data silos and connects physical assets to revenue.

Mario Marin

Network Monitoring and DDoS Protection for Hosting Providers→

Effective network monitoring is foundational for hosting providers. Learn about SNMP polling, DDoS detection with sFlow/NetFlow, BGP blackhole mitigation, and 95th percentile bandwidth billing.

Mario Marin

No-Code Automation for Hosting Providers: The Visual Plugin Builder→

Hosting providers need integrations that adapt to their business. Learn how a visual, no-code plugin builder lets you create custom automations for provisioning, payments, and notifications without writing code.

Mario Marin

How a Built-In Ticketing System Improves Hosting Customer Retention→

Customer retention in hosting depends on responsive, context-aware support. Learn how an integrated ticketing system built into your billing platform eliminates context-switching and improves the customer experience.

Mario Marin

Reseller Management: Wholesale Pricing, APIs, and Revenue Tracking→

Learn how FluxBilling reseller management handles wholesale pricing, tiered discounts, reseller APIs, customer management, and real-time revenue tracking for hosting providers.

Ilinca Bostan