aplawson Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 What is the extend of OnApp integration with WHMCS? I would like my users to be able to resell cloud servers as is possible with Hostbill. But Load Balancers would be nice too. Is there a feature compatability matrix somewhere? Thanks, Adam 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 WHMCS Chris Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Hello, Are you referring to this module? http://onapp.com/cloud/how-it-works/integrations/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 aplawson Posted February 13, 2013 Author Share Posted February 13, 2013 (edited) Hello Chris, Thanks. I saw that link but Hostbill contains features for things like resellers creating new cloud VM's, load balancers, DNS and CDN but it seems WHMCS doesn't. But I don't want to assume. Is there something that speaks to that? Edited February 13, 2013 by aplawson 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 DavidBee Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Hi Chris, The module lacks compared to hostbills app. We are in the process of switching to hostbill for our main systems because of the onapp plugin. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 WHMCS Chris Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 HostSurf, Understood - however I'd like to point out that there has been a single vote for the feature request of this: http://requests.whmcs.com/responses/onapp-integration 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 DavidBee Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 HostSurf,Understood - however I'd like to point out that there has been a single vote for the feature request of this: http://requests.whmcs.com/responses/onapp-integration Tried to vote but no votes left:( I do know a cloud provider worked closely with OnApp to develop the module. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 WHMCS Chris Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 HostSurf, have you been out of votes since inception? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 DavidBee Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 I did vote way at the start now when ever I try it tells me no more votes. According to my profile I have voted 14 times. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 WHMCS Chris Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 HostSurf, I just checked your two accounts - and correct, you've utilized the votes. One of the 15 was a submission which counts as an up vote. As it reenables votes per 60 days this should be coming shortly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 DavidBee Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Sorry about the two accounts thing. When I first accessed the request section the auto login from forum never worked and signed up using twitter. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 WHMCS Chris Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 HostSurf, no apology needed. Create as many as you'd like. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 MemoryX2 Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 Hi Chris, The module lacks compared to hostbills app. We are in the process of switching to hostbill for our main systems because of the onapp plugin. Highly considering this also. Right now we are still with WHMCS though. I really like lots of things that they have going on. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 wiredgorilla Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 Ditto, unfortunately the lack of willingness of WHMcs staff regarding the onAPP3 module leaves a sour taste in my mouth. We have been loyal WHMcs customers for over 3 years with multiple licenses and Matt has always been helpful, not sure what changed lately though:( Unfortunately as a result , we are strongly considering Hostbill as well (rather prefer not too). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Manu Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 Ditto, unfortunately the lack of willingness of WHMcs staff regarding the onAPP3 module leaves a sour taste in my mouth.We have been loyal WHMcs customers for over 3 years with multiple licenses and Matt has always been helpful, not sure what changed lately though:( Unfortunately as a result , we are strongly considering Hostbill as well (rather prefer not too). Me too. Hope WHMCS will speed up the development. It is unfortunate that both cPanel and Onapp integrations are made much better in Hostbillapp. Besides these two modules, I'm happy with WHMCS: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 wiredgorilla Posted February 22, 2013 Share Posted February 22, 2013 Me too. Hope WHMCS will speed up the development. It is unfortunate that both cPanel and Onapp integrations are made much better in Hostbillapp. Besides these two modules, I'm happy with WHMCS: Yes, especially when you consider that WHMcs is partly owned by cPanel now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 L702 Posted May 20, 2013 Share Posted May 20, 2013 we are in a tough position as there is a lack of competitive support for OnApp compared to what HostBill is offering 'off the shelf'. True, HostBill is a lot more expensive than WHMCS and there are some reservations about support and management stability which they are suffering from ATM, but this could also just be growing pains. I am sure WHMCS has the customer numbers to justify building a deeper integration with OnApp at Admin, User and Reseller levels offering support for OnApp Cloud, DNS, CDN and LoadBalancers. Really not sure why WHMCS has pushed back on deeper integration with OnApp or for that matter VMWare. It's almost like WHMCS is only interested in building the core and wants everyone else to do the integrations. I am really pushing back hard on the idea of migrating to Hostbill as we have a heap of production integrations between WHMCS and other services which would need to be reworked. If crunch comes to crunch our hand may be forced in regards to having to move to HostBill given it offers core support for OnApp. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ryan311 Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 Same. We are moving from WHMCS to HostBill because of no onApp support to the extent that we need it. Both products are super cheap so it's just a matter of what works better for your company. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 DavidBee Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 You think HostBill is cheap? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Manu Posted May 21, 2013 Share Posted May 21, 2013 The Onapp integration definitely needs work. We have been thinking of switching over to Hostbill as well. But I think we will set up another brand on Hostbill first. If WHMCS developed a good Onapp integration we would be happy to pay for it. Both Hostbill and WHMCS are very cheap compared to Onapp. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Apoc Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 You think HostBill is cheap? Yeah, definitely. 1k to automate the core of your business is nothing. If you consider that expensive while your core business is hosting, maybe you should reconsider whether you should be in business at all (no disrespect intended - just sharing my point of view). If WHMCS developed a good Onapp integration we would be happy to pay for it. Both Hostbill and WHMCS are very cheap compared to Onapp. You can't compare WHMCS/Hostbill with OnApp. They're completely different products. On top of that, you can't compare WHMCS/Hostbill support to OnApp's near-instant responses. I consider WHMCS to be _very_ underpriced. I'd really like to see them offer something like a premium package and would have no problem paying $xx,xxx if it does everything we need it to do, combined with good support. As long as it's not a model which is going to take a part of our revenue like Ubersmith does. We have also been considering to switch to Hostbill. But all the horror stories about bugs, coupled with (apparently) dramatically poor support, have been keeping us away. Anyway, back on-topic: we are actively working with OnApp, and we are trying to get the original blueprints/workflow from the developers of the current integration, in order to evaluate what would need to be fixed/added to get this integration in proper shape. I know the existing integration is open-source, so we could just evaluate this ourselves. But getting the dev documentation would obviously save quite a bit of time. We're currently still at the orientation stage, but we do consider it likely that we'll be picking up the development of this integration and get it in shape. If anyone's interested in either contributing to the development, or to chip in, drop me a line. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 zoilodiaz Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 Hostbill module is far more advance, and they keep updating it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Apoc Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 Hostbill module is far more advance, and they keep updating it. While that's true, how is that relevant? This is WHMCS's forum, not a "let's push WHMCS clients to Hostbill" forum. Also - as indicated, Hostbill has issues of their own. Their functionality may be more advanced, but that's not of much use when something's not working and there's no (quick/proper) support to back you up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 zoilodiaz Posted May 22, 2013 Share Posted May 22, 2013 my point is that whmcs need to do some similar and keep the module updated too. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Snowman Posted May 30, 2013 Share Posted May 30, 2013 Sadly i even submitted a development request and offered to pay for the modules to be built by whmcs and was told they were not interested.... and we definitely dont want to go to Hostbill because migrating a massive clientbase to a new system is not somewhere we want to fo 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 WHMCS Chris Posted May 30, 2013 Share Posted May 30, 2013 Have you guys checked out Modules Garden - those that are inquiring for custom development? WHMCS did not build the available OnApp module - so we have no ability to continue to update it as WHMCS does not own the code. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Snowman Posted May 30, 2013 Share Posted May 30, 2013 Have you guys checked out Modules Garden - those that are inquiring for custom development? WHMCS did not build the available OnApp module - so we have no ability to continue to update it as WHMCS does not own the code. Chris No i haven't spoken to them yet about this... although i will as for the code that Onapp developed they are more than happy for you to work with the code and develop a module from it.. and or to develop one yourselves like hostbill did.. which is what i requested in my support ticket about it a while back and was told you weren't doing any module development currently My issue with 3rd party developers is a lot have come and gone over the years and i dont want some closed source module developed and then find it cant be updated or fixed later on when that company dissapears.. (not that im implying they all will do that...just a lot have) Im sure if you developed one you'd blow theirs away... and you would have a powerful CDN and cloud solution built into whmcs directly 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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What is the extend of OnApp integration with WHMCS? I would like my users to be able to resell cloud servers as is possible with Hostbill. But Load Balancers would be nice too. Is there a feature compatability matrix somewhere?
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