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Makes even less sense to charge people with recurring payments. Monthly costs more than owned. A one time payment plus a tiny yearly after that hardly covers the time required to provide support. This is what dealing with small developers is like. If you want corporate, deal with corporate. The little guy can't always provide that. The guy has to eat. Only way whmcs can is the volume of their sales. I highly doubt this guy wouldn't love to sale enough to provide better support.
I think thats a strong point with blesta is that most modules are not encoded.
I'd have to agree with @jarland. I mean to be honest WHMCS is bigger than HostBill or Blesta. If you're so keen on support then go and stay on WHMCS (hell I'm on WHMCS also) but I agree that Hostbill and blesta are viable alternatives for WHMCS.
Although I will admit I dislike how I can't get a monthly subscription to HostBill, but that's my own complaining.
I really don't know why he stopped offering it. Monthly subscription is the way to go for profit, unless he was really running low on funds and hoping that it would force a few more people to buy an owned license in a shorter time frame.
I'm going to buy one now, still deciding if branded or not :-)
Anybody wrote some hook/extension/plugin for hostbill?
We currently use HostBill and we have never had any issues with them. They have responded to our tickets submitted 30 days after the purchase date with out any issues.
So we have to PAY THEM for them to fix THEIR BUGS.
Tech support and application bugs are two different subjects.
They do provide free forum support anyway, where you can submit a request on the forum anyway.
By your logic vBulletins business model is a formula for complete destruction!
HostBill is not the only company that implements this rule!
Look how many small forums use vBulletin.
We've written a few provisioning plugins, it's quite easy
Thank you, hope it will be easy even for us :-)
Feel free to toss me a line on here, IRC, or Skype if you run into any troubles
I Hostbill, The only issue I had with it was when there was the Smarty Exploit almost half a year ago, and I kept getting spammed by bots. That was pretty much the only issue I had, I still got my monthly license, but they don't have it publicly available anymore, it looks like they let existing customers keep their stuff.
I have, I wrote an updated Kloxo handler.
Thanks all, I bought one license, will see when I find the time to play with it :-)