Engineering notes from the team building the platform.

How to design hybrid usage-based billing for hosting — metering, allowances, graduated pricing, caps, and reconciliation that customers actually trust.

Mario Marin

Shared, VPS, dedicated, colocation, and cloud each need their own billing model. Here is how to price, bill, and provision each one for 2026.

Ilinca Bostan

Turn SSL and domain reselling into a serious recurring revenue stream — lifecycle automation, pricing, bundling, and the customer experience bar for 2026.

Mario Marin

The metrics that actually matter for hosting providers — MRR, churn, LTV, CAC, NRR, and the operational KPIs that compound into long-term growth.

Ilinca Bostan

Why white-labeling your hosting client portal is one of the highest-leverage branding decisions you can make — and what a true white-label experience actually includes.

Mario Marin

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

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