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Reselling website hosting through Lusion Technologies

Posted by Josh on November 15th, 2008

We’ve been getting a lot of queries about our custom reseller website hosting package (which we obviously believe is the best), so I’m going to take some time to explain it in more detail, which should hopefully answer most of the questions.

The idea behind the whole reseller setup, is that you can sell website hosting to your clients at your own prices, without having to manage invoicing or support for them. You can charge whatever you want, we’ll invoice your clients and you’ll keep 20% of our fee + whatever you charge on top of our fee.

As for your bank account, all your clients payments goes directly to you. Once they pay you, you’ll just need to mark them off as paid on our reseller system (thats the only “work” you need to do), and then we’ll invoice you for 80% of our fee.

If its their first payment, we’ll included a welcome email along with the payment processed email. If they don’t pay, we’ll send them a reminder and eventually suspend their account. You don’t need to worry about any of that stuff.

We realized one of the most important thing any reseller system needs to have is a way to allow full branding of all services. To do this we used an advanced template engine called Smarty. Our invoices, welcome emails and even support emails all run with templates, meaning you can change any detail you want; from simple stuff such as changing the company away from “Lusion Technologies” (obviously we expect you to do that), to literally changing the entire design if you wish.

You don’t really need to worry about the reseller template engine though. We have a R1000 setup fee for our reseller system, which includes the initial branding of all our reseller templates, and setting up of your custom control panel header.

Another big factor, is as one of our resellers you receive the highest levels of support. We maintain close contact with all of our resellers, and will help out as we can. With our custom reseller website hosting deal, we profit as you do, and with years of experience – we believe we can give an extended helping hand.

The last thing to note, is very soon we will be offering credit card services to our resellers. That is, your clients will be able to pay by credit card. If you’ve read thus far, the only work you are required to do is mark off when your clients pay and transfer the money to us. If we dealing with charging your clients via credit card (we use an anonymous ‘Web Hosting’ tag on their credit card receipt), you don’t have to do a thing besides get clients, and optionally watch your bank account as you receive the ultimate passive income.

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JavaScript Particle Engine

Posted by Josh on November 6th, 2008

I’ve always been a fan of eye candy, and a couple weeks ago while bored I decided to whip together a particle engine (the way explosions, rain and similar effects are achieved in games), except attempt it in javascript.

There are many disadvantages to a JavaScript particle engine, the main ones being memory and speed. I gave it a shot anyway, and the results are quite nice to look at (although you can’t run it at decent speed with more than 500 particles even on top hardware).

Either way, I’ll put it up here for anyone to look at or comment on. Click the link below to take a look. Try click to create a circle, or double click for an explosion. If you want to change any options just refresh the page.

Go to http://www.lusion.co.za/labs/particle to check it out

Playing with some of the other hidden variables, can produce some nice effects:

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Protecting our clients data

Posted by Josh on November 1st, 2008

We have not posted on this blog in the last month, mainly because we’ve been working so hard on improving our services we just have not had any time. Along with our new server and greatly improved control panel speeds, there should be a new icon in your control panel – ‘R1Soft Restore Backups’.

Using R1Soft’s Righteous Backup software, we now have “eight hour incremental backups, with seven day rentention”. It layman’s terms this means we create a new backup every eight hours by working out the differences from the last backup and only saving those, and then we keep your backups accessible for the next week.

So now, if you ever delete a file, realize someones stolen your password and changed your websites front page (or broken into your hosting account through an old version of any script you’re running, which is why you should always keep them up to date), or maybe just simply changed some scripts and accidentally break something on your hosting account – you can simply restore to any point (within eight hours) in the last week.

Just another way we’re trying to provide the best hosting experience possible. If you’re considering getting a hosting account, go grab a Lusion Technologies account now (click here to go to our signup form).

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