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About Daniel

Daniel is one of Matt Lundstrom's right hand men at GlowHost.com.

WHMCS and You

Do you wish there was an easy solution to create invoices, use recurring billing, provide support and otherwise deal with your hosted clients? There is – WHMCS. WHMCS is a fully templated, easily customizable, automated solution for hosting & domain management, support, billing, statistics and more.

whmcsWHMCS is something of a “one-stop shop” that will provide the interfacing between yourself and your hosted clients in a multifaceted way. Combine WHMCS with our Reseller plans (some even include it at a discounted rate or even free!) to get your very own web hosting company off the ground quickly. Let’s cover a bit of the many great features this suite brings to the table.

Billing

WHMCS allows you to send your clients high quality professional looking invoices. It also sends payment reminders, new invoices, quotes and more all in your own design. It’s also integrated with over 75 different payment gateways out of the box. WHMCS supports multiple gateways used concurrently, and integrated for fully automated payment processing, payment confirmations & refunds. Taking payments is now easier than ever, especially when paired with our free-setup merchant accounts!

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From a ticket system with social integration to a complete network status system, WHMCS is all you need to offer support to your clients. It supports email piping to generate tickets from emails, attachments to transfer files to and from your clients, and even a pre-sales contact form to help seal the deal.

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Data Backups and You

If a disaster were to happen, do you know where your data backup is? Our datacenters are equipped with advanced protection equipment including high security and fire prevention and suppression. Unfortunately, you still have to expect the unexpected and that’s why making sure you have backups of your data is of utmost importance.

While GlowHost takes backups daily and weekly of our shared servers,Data Backup is Crucial it’s highly recommended that you have multiple copies of your data in various geographical locations. Please understand, however, that web hosting companies do not guarantee backups nor that the backups will be available. Generally our backups are for internal purposes only and you can’t always be sure that we will have the backup you need. Keeping this in mind, you have your data on your server with GlowHost and the hard drive fails on that server. You still have a copy on a flash drive at home, right? Great! What happens if you plug in that flash drive and it’s corrupted? Not so great. Sure all this is theoretical, but this is where an off-site backup service comes in.

Backup Services

GlowHost offers multiple backup restoration services to protect you in the event of such a catastrophe. Continue reading