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If you are building sites for your customers or for a client, you would normally start on a Developer Plan or Database Plan account. When your site is complete, the billing can be transferred to your client after re-signing of the hosting agreements, or we can continue to bill you directly for all the sites you run.
Extra Domains Option: Subdomain sites can be created free of charge on the Developer, Database and Commercial plans. On the Commercial plan, up to 3 extra domain names and mail servers can be added free of charge. This makes setting up customer sub-accounts simple and inexpensive, with the added advantage that your customer sites can reside inside your site's main folder for easy administration.
Extra Accounts Option: Sites created as new plans are separate from your own site and are invoiced separately. Each site comes with it's own set of passwords and a SiteWinder interface. You can also use the database from your existing site, so some clients use Budget Plans for additional sites to save money.
Commissions: Once you have developed one site, the first 3 months hosting are free of charge on extra sites you refer to us, or host with us. Alternatively, we can invoice your customer and credit your account with the amount of their first 3 months (after payment has been received). If you are already in credit, we can send you a cheque as your commission.
If you are developing sites frequently, this can be a good source of additional revenue.
Dedicated PostGreSQL and MySQL instances
If you develop software which uses a database, we have the option of a Dedicated Database Server on our Pro Plan and above.
In this case, you have the administrator password to your database server, and can create multiple databases and users, limited only by your available disk space. This allows you to use our Budget Plan for your customers instead of a plan that comes with a database of it's own, and therefore provide cheaper monthly hosting.
Dedicated Database Server instances are available with MySQL and PostGreSQL. New databases that you create are accessible from our phpMyAdmin and phpPgAdmin systems, so you can provide your customers access to these systems to allow them to control their own database in your database server. We perform daily backups, monitoring and automatic restarts of the database for you, as well as providing remote access over SSH.
This is a cheap way to run a large number of database-enabled sites.
See the plan comparison for more information on our hosting plans.
