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WHMCS is bloated, antiquated but when starting up a small hosting company from scratch it's about all there is really in terms of full-coverage hosting billing

WHMCS is bloated, antiquated but when starting up a small hosting company from scratch it's about all there is really in terms of full-coverage hosting billing platforms. Tried a few others, that just weren't etched out enough. Had to build a few custom plugins to get it to sync w/ my domains reseller, and more, it's a bit scrappy. I'd love to see someone create an open source whmcs clone using laravel, or django, or even phoenix framework. Even cooler would be a full cpanel clone w/ billing addon included for hosts, all built on phoenix w/ multi-threaded support (cpanel can itself be slow from time to time)

tmikaeld 10y ago
My company struggled with it for years and there is still no end in sight, we have been "hacked" several times through vulnerabilities in WHMCS. Mid last year we changed to https://www.blesta.com/ https://www.blesta.com/ and since they are open source with a good security track-record - we hope that the issues will be over. The only drawback is that they don't have as many 3rd party integrations yet, and that customers have to get used to the new interface.