Server provider integration

Andrei

It would be nice to be able to add API keys/tokens from cloud server providers like Hetzner, Digital Ocean, Vultr, Linode, Upcloud, etc. That would make new server provisioning way faster, right from the panel.

It could also open up the possibility to even allow clients to select a provider, select a location, select a server, and spin up a new server (for dedicated packages).

gozen

That probably has to be linked with billing though, unless you suggest an update for the billing integration module.

JohnB

That sounds like cloudways.

The flow could be:

Billing software lets customer pick from common providers which server size location etc (may already exist or is a module in WHMCS )
Billing calls provider API and provisions server and attaches it to customer/hosting plan.
Said software should allow running a script after the server is provisioned which would handle the enhance installation
Enhance billing integration takes care of setting up the customer & creating a package

Unless I'm missing something it seems like Enhance has all the functionality already its just a matter of integrating it.

Adam

This is definitely possible and was one of the original planned features when Enhance was designed in 2019. Being able to up-sell customers to a dedicated/VPS directly through the hosting control panel, to have the server provisioned and the websites automatically migrated would be a very powerful feature.

The challenge is that our customer base is global and there are hundreds of cloud providers with whom we would need to integrate. The solution is probably that we develop some kind of module system (similar to terraform) for which external developers or even the providers themselves can develop modules. We would develop the initial modules for popular providers such as the ones listed in the original post.