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H-Sphere control panel

H-Sphere control panel

H-Sphere is a scalable multiserver web hosting solution. It is the most complete, powerful and dynamic control panel for web hosting resellers. Its proposed competitors don't come close: cPanel, Plesk, Ensim, Helm. No other control panel puts so much functionality at your fingertips.

It has many advanced features and a sophisticated billing system to automate and improve your web hosting tasks. H-Sphere was designed to work on many servers and can be scaled by adding more web, mail, database, and DNS servers without any downtime. It provides a simple, easy-to-use web interface that can be maintained from any computer with internet connection. H-Sphere was written in Java and works with any SQL-compliant database. It runs only industry standard software.

H-Sphere offers the highest level of web-hosting operations by providing:

Automated Customer Signup

H-Sphere takes care of all stages of customer signup. No longer is it necessary to add each new user to the system - users can complete the registration all by themselves.

Automated customer signup

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Automated Domain Registration

Your customers can register domain names without leaving their control panel. H-Sphere automates all procedures and charges related to standard domain name registration. You can register domains with for only $6.95 per year through EIRCAs exclusive partnership with ENOM.

Automated domain registration

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Credit Card Processing

H-Sphere automatically performs all charges to your customers credit cards for the services you offer. All you need to do is choose and configure a merchant gateway.

Automated credit card processing

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E-mail Customer And Admin Notifications

Whenever necessary, H-Sphere will send your customers welcome letters and other notifications. You can also have copies of these e-mails sent to your e-mail account. Notifications are sent when a customer signs up, forgets a password, approaches disk or traffic limit to name just a few instances. The content of the notifications is editable by master admin and resellers right from the control panel.

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Fully Automated Account Provisioning

Customers can use their control panel to switch between available plans, buy more disk space or traffic, register domains, add dns entries, create e-mail and FTP accounts, create directories, etc.

Billing Solution

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Variety of Payment Methods

Customers can pay for hosting services with credit cards, checks and via web-based payment providers: WorldPay, PayPal, 2CheckOut, GestPay, PaySystems and PayNova.

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Setup, Recurrent, And Overlimit Prices

Every hosting resource has a setup, recurrent and overlimit price, different for each billing period. This allows for flexible pricing policies.

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Taxes

You can apply taxes, such as VAT, to customer charges. Taxes are added to the summary invoice amounts.

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Tax Exemption

You can wave individual customers from paying taxes. At signup, tax exemption code is entered, then approved or rejected by administrator.

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Email Invoicing

With email invoicing enabled, H-Sphere will send invoices for every single bill entry, such as overlimit traffic or buying a resource. After signup, users can change this option for their accounts.

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Reports

Administrator/Reseller can view reports by selected accounts and periods, including:

  • Billing Balances - searches user accounts by balance and days in debt.
  • Estimated balance exhaustion date - calculates the date when user account runs out of positive balance.
  • Charge Log - shows the messages that H-Sphere exchanged with the Credit Card Online Processing Center.
  • Billing Entries - searches accounts by transactions performed over the specified time period.
  • Monetary Transaction - shows all payments made towards each account over the specified time period.
  • Transfer Traffic - shows how much traffic was used during certain period of time.
  • Disk Usage - searches accounts by the disk space used by the customers.
  • Reseller Traffic - shows transfer traffic used by resellers and their users, searches resellers accounts by traffic.
  • Reseller's User Disk Usage - shows disk space used by resellers and their users.
  • IP Addresses - searches accounts by the IP addresses.
  • CC Processing Errors - shows the number of failed CC processing attempts.
  • Content Move - shows the results of moving virtual hosting between physical servers within the same H-Sphere cluster.

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Managing Debtors

H-Sphere can be configured to notify, suspend and/or delete accounts of users that have been in debt over a specified period of time. Respective warnings are sent first. With it, account suspension doesn't remove any of client's resources or configuration.

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Discounts For Different Billing Periods

You can create many billing periods within a plan for customers to choose from. In every billing period, you to set discounts for setup, recurrent, and overlimit prices. This way, you don't need to specify resource prices in each billing period.

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Promotions For Plans

You can create promotion plans that grant flexible discounts for accounts. Discounts are provided via promo codes and unnamed promotions and calculated based on the full amount of charge.

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Credit Limit

H-Sphere accumulates user fees up to a certain amount before credit card payment users get charged and check payment users get barred from buying more resources. Credit limit is set in the plan and can be increased (decreased) for individual accounts and reset for all users in the system in one go.

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Billing Profiles

Users can create and switch between multiple billing profiles. One billing profile can be used for several accounts. Trial users don't have billing profiles.

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Refunds

H-Sphere allows complete refunds during the specified initial period and partial refunds after this period has expired. The duration of the period and refund percentage is configurable from the control panel. Only the latest billing period/month recurrent charges can be refunded, while as other charges can be returned by crediting accounts manually.

Private label reselling

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Full-featured admin control panel

Resellers act as completely independent hosting providers, while selling EIRCA's resources. Each reseller gets an independent admin control panel, which gives you the power to create their own plans, provide customer support, edit customer e-mail notifications from H-Sphere control panel and perform all other administrative tasks.

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Complete branding

Resellers can have their own CP URL, DNS server names, company information, corporate logos and all other parameters visible from the user's control panel. Resellers appear to end customers as totally independent hosting providers. Furthermore, reseller control panels are inaccessible by IP, which excludes the possibility of accidental or intentional visits to EIRCA's admin control panel.

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Independent Billing

Billing for Resellers is a completely independent system. Resellers also have plan wizards to create plans with their own prices for each individual resource, including setup, recurrent, and extra fees. Also, it's resellers who decide whether to offer trial hosting and how many free units will be included in their plans, create various payment intervals with discounts for each type of fee, debit and credit individual accounts, set fees for additional services, etc.

User friendly control panel

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Centralized Control

You can handle all your Windows and Unix customers from one place. H-Sphere control panel provides a comprehensive web interface to manage all your servers, customers, plans, accounts and settings.

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Intuitive Plan Wizards

H-Sphere's plan creation wizards will help you to create and edit hosting plans step by step. They make it easy to add or remove resources, set or edit prices, and configure other plan parameters.

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Integrated support center

Customers can report their problems without leaving their control panel by means of enhanced Trouble Ticket System.

Incoming trouble tickets can be picked up by or assigned to different tech support members. You can search and sort trouble tickets, keep them on hold, send to multiple users, add attachments. EIRCA has further expanded H-Sphere to allow you to disable the trouble ticket center and replace it with your own. This is done via Support Selector, which is very handy for companies who already have their own support infrastructure in place. End user support, offered with EIRCA's reseller plans, can be done via either H-Sphere's system or your own. Additional costs for end user support may be incurred for support via your own ticket system. Contact the Sales Team for more information.

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Multiple skins for users

Customers can choose between multiple designs:

  • Default Left Menu design with menu-based navigation;
  • XPressia and XPressia Light design with an unfolding navigation menu;
  • No Menu design with icon-based navigation.

Moreover, you can set your own scheme and color settings: choose icon set, text and button colors and more.

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Multiple accounts per one user

H-Sphere provides a three-tier system of accounts. The first tier is the user, which corresponds to a Unix or Windows account. The second tier is the account proper; this is what counts when you pay for H-Sphere licenses. One user can have several accounts, which allows a user to subscribe both to a Windows plan and to a Unix plan. The third tier is the domain, which corresponds to one site. A user can host several sites within one account.

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Ability to change account settings

From their control panels, users can change their plan (Reseller/admin can disable this functionality if they choose to), billing period, billing profile, disk quota and traffic.

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User friendly invoice format

The readability of user invoices has been significantly improved. Invoices contain explanations to almost every item they are charged for. These explanations/descriptions can be set by the reseller/admin as they see fit.

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Complete set of web hosting tools

The user control panel comes with a complete range of tools a customer may need to create, configure, launch, and promote a website. These include:

  • SiteStudio website builder;
  • WebShell, a web-based file manager;
  • web statistics analyzers: Webalizer, Urchin, AWStats and ModLogan;
  • Kanoodle website promotion tool;
  • a password protection utility;
  • website registration with major search engines.

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Integrated PHP/MySQL Applications

Users can easily set up over 20 PHP/MySQL applications, such as Blogs, CMS & Portals, Forums, E-Commerce etc., directly in their user CP with the help of EasyApp Collection.

Key functionalities

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Sub-domains with functionalities of regular domains

Subdomains in H-Sphere are as powerful as regular domains. They support the same services and can be hosted on dedicated IPs.

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Shared and Anonymous FTP Access

Users can share access to their home directory with friends, relatives and colleagues. Permissions to each directory can be configured individually for every FTP user.

H-Sphere also allows for anonymous FTP access to individual directories. This comes handy when a user chooses to allow unrestricted access to certain files using FTP connection.

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Error Document management

H-Sphere significantly simplifies the procedure of creating and configuring HTML error documents that are shown to internet visitors when a page fails to be found or to be displayed correctly.

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Shared SSL support

You can install one shared SSL certificate to secure all your customers with third level domains. Certificates are installed through the control panel web interface.

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CGI Script Manager

Users can install and uninstall generic CGI scripts in their accounts with a single mouse click in the control panel.

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Affiliate Programs

H-Sphere allows you to use up to five affiliate program scripts to track user signups.

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