If you’ve not heard of Sendy, it’s time you did… especially if you are an independent web host. In short, it’s a self hosted mailing list/newsletter application that leverages the power and price point of Amazon SES to send email blasts cheaply. Well, that is actually huge news for independent web hosts like us because built right into the functionality of Sendy is the ability to bill clients for mailings via PayPal. The installation of Sendy is a snap. I had the software purchased, downloaded, and installed in about 15 minutes, and I was creating test client accounts and mail campaigns immediately.
How Much Can You Make?
Well the math is pretty simple here. The Sendy software package is a one time purchase of $59.
Amazon charges $0.0001 per email sent through SES. What you choose to charge per email is up to you. By comparison, MailChimp charges $0.03 per email. Even if you set your price at a generous $0.01 per email, you stand to profit $99 for every 10,000 emails sent through your system. Not bad, right? [Read more…] about Integrate Sendy with WHMCS Billing for less than a Latte
One of my biggest fears with getting into web hosting was the question of how was I going to compete with the big players. You’ve got your GoDaddys and 
Greetings Pubsters,
When it comes to hosting, one of the most important things to consider is security. I tend to err on the side of caution. So in an attempt to further the security of my hosting environment I added FTP to the Host Access Control in cPanel. Most of my clients do not use FTP and the ones that do have static IP addresses, so why leave it on for everyone else?
There are a number of reasons why you’d want to send all email from your cPanel server through a smarthost. Maybe your ISP blocks traffic on destination port 25. Or maybe you utilize your own SMTP relay or outbound spam server. Whatever your reason, setting this up is simple in WHM. 
