Hey, internet developer! What number of websites do you assume you’ll be able to simply arrange and handle by yourself or as a part of a small company? With WPMU DEV we reckon it’s completely a great deal of them… and right here’s how.
On this put up, we’re going to present you the right way to simply resell white-label internet hosting, create epic websites in minutes, automate web site administration duties (for a whole bunch of them), run all of it seamlessly beneath your personal model, and even arrange subscriptions that care for themselves.
Able to reside the dream? Lock your self in!
On this article, you’ll discover ways to simply handle limitless WordPress websites utilizing one-click plugin configurations, automated updates, hands-free backups, and 24/7 web site monitoring, plus add white label internet hosting reselling with built-in consumer billing, arrange immediately optimized consumer websites, and extra — saving you time and serving to your WordPress enterprise develop sooner, simpler, and extra profitably.
We’ll cowl the next areas that will help you pace up your workflow and improve income:
- Your WordPress Enterprise Setup is All Set Up
- Save Time with Easy and Speedy Web site Creation
- Save Time Internet hosting and Managing Shopper Websites
- Shortly Replace Core, Plugins, And Themes for All Shopper Websites from One Place
- Routinely Replace All Your Shoppers’ Core, Plugins, and Themes
- Handle All Plugins Simply with My Plugins
- Delegate, Collaborate, and Make Your Workforce Work Nice
- Present 24/7 Web site Monitoring and Prompt Automated Downtime Studies with Uptime
- Automate Internet hosting Backups
- Generate Month-to-month Recurring Income with Internet hosting Reselling and Automated Shopper Billing
We’ll additionally contact on a number of the issues we plan to introduce within the close to future to enhance your WordPress enterprise automation 😉
Let’s start with…
Your WordPress Enterprise Setup is All Set Up
Whether or not you handle one or a thousand WordPress consumer websites, WPMU DEV has your online business wants absolutely coated proper from the get-go.
The whole lot it is advisable to run your WordPress enterprise is included along with your membership and already arrange and able to use as quickly as you be part of (not a member but? Attempt us free!).
So, in your Member’s dashboard, you’ll be able to simply go from this…
To this, in only a few clicks, for each web site you handle…
The whole lot takes place from The Hub, which is your central administration console and WordPress enterprise HQ. The Hub allows you to handle limitless purchasers websites…from internet hosting, web site setup and configuration, to updating core, plugins, and themes, optimizing web site efficiency, managing safety, search engine optimisation, working backups, web site monitoring, consumer experiences, and extra…even accessing our 24-7 assist.
As you will notice in a second, virtually the whole lot in The Hub will be arrange with a couple of clicks and configured to run routinely.
Moreover, as a member, you might be immediately given white label internet hosting reseller standing and entry to our consumer billing and administration methods (additionally white label, after all)…all at no cost!
We’ll contact on these areas (and extra) in only a second. The takeaway right here is that the whole lot it is advisable to run your WordPress enterprise is included with WPMU DEV, already arrange, and able to use.
Let’s present you now the right way to save time and earn a living simpler, sooner, and higher than you ever imagined along with your WordPress enterprise.
It’s as simple as 1-2-3:
- Save Time with Easy and Speedy Web site Creation
- Save Time Internet hosting and Managing Shopper Websites
- Generate Month-to-month Recurring Earnings with Internet hosting Reselling and Shopper Billing
Save Time with Easy and Speedy Web site Creation
The Hub allows you to simply handle consumer web sites hosted on Third-party hosts (utilizing our Dashboard plugin) or hosted with WPMU DEV utilizing numerous choices.
If you’re internet hosting websites with us, you’ll discover plenty of easy and speedy methods to arrange your websites.
You’ll be able to migrate an present consumer web site with no internet hosting downtime utilizing our migration choices, or…
Spin Model New Websites Loaded with Cool Options and Advantages
Once you create a model new web site in The Hub utilizing WPMU DEV’s managed WordPress internet hosting, your web site is routinely arrange and configured by itself remoted, compartmentalized, and absolutely secured server with a complete vary of subsequent degree cool options added like:
- One-click On-line Staging
- Net Software Firewall
- Quick-CGI Static Server Cache
- Automated Internet hosting Backups
- Self-Therapeutic Structure
- Each day Malware Scanning
- A Suite of Strong Premium Plugins
- Plus simple SFTP/SSH entry, phpMyAdmin, and a lot extra…
And all of that is completed routinely for you in seconds while you click on the “Create Site” button.
Organising blazing quick internet hosting to your purchasers’ websites is just the start.
Now…what about really constructing web sites to your purchasers? Does WPMU DEV assist make this course of faster and simpler too?
Will we ever!
Let’s say that your consumer wants a hosted web site – pronto!
The quickest manner to do that is by routinely having one able to go.
You’ll be able to pace up your site-building course of utilizing our Templates function or by Cloning a web site.
Let’s take a quick take a look at these strategies.
Choose from Superb Templates or Create Your Personal for Free
To assist pace up your web site development course of, we provide a rising library of free skilled web site templates to go well with a complete vary of purposes, from blogs, to small companies and advertising and marketing companies, skilled providers, non-profit websites, eCommerce, and extra.
You’ll be able to select certainly one of our premade templates or take certainly one of your present websites and put it aside as a customized template for future use. Be taught extra about utilizing templates.
Clone WordPress Websites for Fast and Automated Web site Creation
One other option to pace up your web site development is to immediately clone an present web site or template.
Cloning eliminates the necessity to construct a web site from scratch. Merely select which web site you need to clone, and your new web site is prepared.
Try our documentation part to study extra about creating and cloning web site templates and cloning web sites.
Now that you recognize it can save you time spinning and establishing a brand new web site, let’s take issues one step additional…
Optimize Important Plugins Sooner with Configs
Think about that you’ve got simply spent numerous time engaged on a consumer’s web site. You’ve tweaked and optimized it to make it extremely quick and tremendous safe.
Now…do you need to go and do that over again for the subsequent web site you handle? And the subsequent? And the subsequent one too?
No! Not with our internet developer-friendly instruments.
As a WPMU DEV member, not solely do you routinely get entry to our whole suite {of professional} plugins (pace optimization, safety, search engine optimisation, white-labeling, advertising and marketing, analytics, and extra), however with our one-click Plugin Configs, you’ll be able to simply re-apply your already constructed setups to all different WordPress websites that you just handle.
Configs take out the entire painstaking handbook tweaking and changes required to arrange particular person consumer websites.
You’ll be able to immediately apply preset or customized configs to your most well-liked WPMU DEV plugins (and Uptime monitoring – see additional beneath) on limitless websites – all in a couple of clicks.
Be taught extra about Configs and take a look at the transient video beneath.
Needless to say if you happen to use a premade template, you’ll be all set and configs received’t even be obligatory! It’ll all be arrange for you already.
Talking of dashing and setting issues up…
Set Up & Handle E mail and DNS with No Fuss, No Mess, No Stress
“My clients are always super organized with their logins and passwords!”
…stated no web site developer ever!
Time is cash and an effective way to save lots of time (and cash) is to be organized when managing vital consumer web site particulars for providers like area registrars, DNS data, electronic mail logins, and so on.
With WPMU DEV, you’ll be able to arrange and handle all this beneath one roof. From registering and managing domains (coming quickly!), to establishing consumer emails, and managing their DNS.
An typically missed time-saving good thing about managing DNS your self is which you can:
- Quickly arrange consumer websites that you’re engaged on utilizing your personal area title (e.g. client1.yourbusiness.com), after which…
- Simply switch the location over to your consumer’s area as soon as they’ve signed off and paid for it.
Be taught extra about establishing emails on WPMU DEV’s managed WordPress internet hosting and configuring DNS.
Now that we’ve checked out methods to save lots of time creating new consumer websites, let’s present you the right way to…
Save Time Internet hosting and Managing Shopper Websites
Whether or not you select to host websites with WPMU DEV, host websites elsewhere, or work with a mixture of each is totally as much as you.
- Are your purchasers proud of their present host and solely need you to handle their websites? No drawback.
- Wish to simply migrate present consumer websites over to WPMU DEV’s world-class internet hosting platform? No drawback.
- Wish to resell blazing-fast managed WordPress internet hosting as a part of your WordPress providers? No drawback.
The Hub makes it simple so that you can handle your whole websites with many time-saving options, like:
Shortly Replace Core, Plugins, And Themes for All Shopper Websites from One Place
Let’s say you handle a dozen or extra WordPress consumer websites.
Simply think about how a lot time you would need to spend manually logging into every particular person web site to examine and replace that web site’s core, plugins, and themes.
The Hub allows you to view, handle, and replace all of your consumer websites from one display screen with a couple of clicks.
As soon as your websites are arrange in The Hub, you don’t even must log into every web site’s admin space…you are able to do all of it from The Hub.
If your online business entails managing a number of websites, updates are severe enterprise (even for one web site). With a number of websites to take care of, this will flip in a short time right into a life-sucking time-consuming chore (yawn!).
With regards to web site upkeep and updates, The Hub is your good friend certainly in instances of want.
- Must replace a plugin, theme, or WordPress core model? One-click…completed!
- Must ignore core, plugin or theme updates which may trigger issues on some or your whole websites? One-click…completed!
- Must disable plugins and themes on WordPress multisite installations? One-click…completed!
Routinely Replace All Your Shoppers’ Core, Plugins, and Themes
Wish to replace all of your purchasers’ websites routinely at a handy time that fits you?
The Hub not solely allows you to replace WordPress core, plugins, and themes for single or a number of websites and replace particular person components or all of them with one-click, however you can even automate your entire course of to go well with a particular time for your online business (e.g. throughout working hours when you’re obtainable to obtain notifications about any potential points along with your consumer websites).
Kick issues up a notch with Automate, the device that provides you secure, scheduled, backed up, safe, and automatically-accessed updates.
Automate allows you to run automated or handbook core, plugin, and theme updates for all of your websites and run scheduled backups too.
This device additionally consists of superior options to make sure that updates received’t break your websites. For instance, earlier than updating something, Automate will make a whole backup of your web site(s), run error checks and take pre- and post-update snapshots of the websites, evaluate these to guarantee that the whole lot goes easily, and even ship you electronic mail experiences with uptime and error checks with screenshots if any variations are detected.
You’ll be able to simply arrange Automate out of your Hub in only a few clicks by going to Plugins & Themes > Automate.
Right here you’ll be able to select to replace all plugins and themes routinely or manually, supplying you with full management of your replace processes.
With Automate, you can even select replace instances, whether or not to backup your whole web site earlier than every replace, arrange electronic mail alerts, permit purchasers to obtain replace experiences, and extra.
It’s also possible to simply tweak websites for particular updates.
So, use Automate to offer a world-class updating service to all of your managed consumer websites with full “set it and forget it” automation.
For extra on Automate, remember to learn our documentation.
Talking of plugins, right here’s one other time-saving function to your WordPress enterprise…
Handle All Plugins Simply with My Plugins
Your purchasers are all people with particular person web site wants. Managing completely different websites with all completely different sorts of plugins put in on them can get fairly daunting.
Even when you’ve got a whole bunch of WordPress plugins put in throughout many alternative websites, you’ll be able to handle all of them (free and premium) from one handy place, proper from The Hub > My Plugins web page.
The My Plugins web page allows you to search, filter, favourite, bulk set up (together with importing from Zip recordsdata or URLs) and handle plugin installations for all of your websites.
Whilst you can’t use options of The Hub like Automate or Ignore Updates for third-party plugins, the My Plugins part saves you time retaining all of your plugins organized and readily accessible.
Try our documentation part to study extra about configs or watch the video beneath to see how simple, handy, and time-saving this function actually is:
Delegate, Collaborate, and Make Your Workforce Work Nice
WPMU DEV’s platform helps limitless enterprise enlargement, so you’ll be able to develop your WordPress enterprise as large as you want…and we’ll develop with you.
Our Workforce function allows you to simply give a number of customers (together with non-WPMU DEV members) and extra crew members managed entry to the Hub.
You’ll be able to grant or limit entry to all or any of The Hub options and even create customized roles.
Word: Workforce members is not going to have entry to your WPMU DEV membership particulars (or another options of your account, like live-chat assist) however can use all of the Hub options on the websites they’ve permission to entry.
A good higher option to save time than delegating and collaborating is automating, so let’s flip again to a couple extra web site administration time-saving options of The Hub which you can automate in your WordPress enterprise.
Present 24/7 Web site Monitoring and Prompt Automated Downtime Studies with Uptime
Your purchasers pay you to ensure their websites are up and working 24/7 with out errors, points, or issues.
However you additionally must sleep (and have your life too!), so the very last thing you need is a enterprise that takes up all of your time after which have purchasers calling you in the midst of the night time as a result of their web site’s not working because it ought to.
So, what concerning the instances while you’re not round to examine on all of your managed websites?
No drawback! Meet Uptime.
Uptime frequently and routinely screens and tracks your websites’ uptime and efficiency and helps you handle any points earlier than they turn out to be issues. It sends you (and your consumer, if you want) on the spot downtime updates with particulars like uptime, downtime, response time, and alerts so you may get websites again on-line shortly with the assistance of our 24/7 reside assist.
It’s also possible to use configs with Uptime to implement your favourite web site monitoring settings throughout all present and new websites with only a few clicks.
To study extra about establishing and utilizing Uptime to routinely get rid of your web site babysitting chores, see this text.
Automate Internet hosting Backups
Half of your peace of thoughts comes from realizing that every one your managed websites are up and working problem-free.
The opposite half is ensuring that you’ve got arrange automated internet hosting backups.
Little doubt you’ve made certain that your purchasers know that web site backups are an vital a part of their enterprise continuity plan.
Because it occurs, web site and internet hosting backups can be an vital a part of our plan that will help you along with your WordPress enterprise.
When you handle third-party hosted websites, use our Snapshot Professional plugin to create further backups and supply additional safety and safety for his or her companies.
Snapshot allows you to schedule secure and safe incremental backups and routinely add these to distant storage locations (e.g. Amazon S3, Google Drive, Dropbox), obtain on the spot electronic mail alerts and notifications, and even white label the plugin as a part of your providers.
When you host websites with WPMU DEV internet hosting backups are taken care of routinely. There’s actually nothing it is advisable to do.
We now have you utterly coated with one-click restores, nightly incremental backups, automated incremental internet hosting backups earlier than essential occasions (e.g. WordPress updates), a whole backup of your websites created each 15 days, and even 30 days of distant & off-site backups within the unlikely occasion that our information heart will get swallowed up by a sinkhole.
If you would like much more peace of thoughts, you’ll be able to create handbook or cloud backups at any time. And since our hosted websites and backups reside on utterly completely different architectures, you have got the final word peace of thoughts realizing that there’s at all times one thing to fall again to in case sudden disasters strike.
Our automated internet hosting backups are dependable (100% assured), redundant, and use the most recent in superior server-based expertise with virtually no server load, so it’s quick (practically instantaneous) and very space-efficient.
Additionally, we don’t cost further charges to your internet hosting backups or their storage.
All this hands-free backup automation not solely offers your purchasers full peace of thoughts, it additionally offers you a license to print cash. Merely embody it as a part of your providers, set it up, and allow us to care for it for you.
Talking of ka-ching, let’s now flip to methods we may also help you save time and earn more money along with your WordPress enterprise.
Generate Month-to-month Recurring Income with Internet hosting Reselling and Automated Shopper Billing
When you present WordPress providers, reselling internet hosting is a no brainer option to generate further income for your online business…particularly if you happen to can model it as your personal!
Your WPMU DEV membership consists of The Hub Shopper, which turns you into an on the spot white label internet hosting reseller and free (and fee-free) consumer billing magement and automation.
Resell White Label Internet hosting
With our white label internet hosting, you’ll be able to resell internet hosting bundled as a part of your providers, or individually. It’s utterly as much as you.
The Hub Shopper will be arrange by yourself area and absolutely personalized to match your model title, emblem, colours, and so on.
From The Hub Shopper, you can even promote and cost subscriptions for automated updates, efficiency optimization, safety, search engine optimisation, backups, analytics, uptime monitoring, weekly experiences and internet hosting.
It’s also possible to present on-the-spot reside chat assist to purchasers instantly out of your Hub web site by integrating HubSpot, LiveChat or Tawk.to reside chat widgets, and create, model, and customise a number of Hub Shopper web site installs…all from one WPMU DEV account.
Be taught extra about The Hub Shopper.
Automate Shopper Billing
Shopper billing allows you to promote something you need, not simply WordPress providers (bought merch but?).
You need to use consumer billing to generate personalized PDF invoices, create and handle automated consumer subscriptions, cost purchasers and ship electronic mail reminders, course of refunds, monitor month-to-month recurring income, and extra…all from one dashboard in The Hub’s Shopper Billing part.
Your consumer billing cost processing at present integrates with Stripe (extra cost choices coming quickly), giving your purchasers a safe one-click checkout expertise with seamless cost deposits into your account…and “0” transaction charges!
There’s a TON of options that our Shopper Billing offers you that will help you run your online business extra effectively, together with white-label and customized invoicing, electronic mail notifications, monitoring lively subscriptions, and so on.
Try our article on price free consumer billing to discover ways to begin automating your incoming income right now. Additionally, for extra insights on the advantages of reselling WordPress providers, take a look at our epic story on how Bob builds a web site for a automotive wash consumer.
Don’t Wait to Automate…Begin Rising Your WordPress Enterprise At present
It doesn’t matter what type of WordPress enterprise you run…whether or not you’re a solo freelance web site developer or a rising WordPress company, WPMU DEV’s bought your again.
The Hub saves you time managing all of your purchasers’ websites and our white label internet hosting reselling and consumer billing helps you earn more money. Already, you’ll be able to shortly and simply arrange, configure, handle, and invoice your purchasers routinely, and generate month-to-month recurring funds from purchasers with minimal effort.
And There’s Nonetheless Extra to Come for WPMU DEV members…
Down the street, we’ll be together with a self-service consumer portal the place it is possible for you to to promote your merchandise, providers, and add-ons instantly, your purchasers will have the ability to view a pricing desk for various merchandise & providers (e.g. internet hosting, domains, and so on.) primarily based in your outlined pricing plans, and all bought gadgets will likely be routinely deployed to their portal with no further effort required from you.
When you’re not a WPMU DEV member but, strive us free and take a look at the whole lot we provide for your self. Put all of our time-saving web site administration instruments, award-winning plugins, white-label internet hosting, consumer billing automation, and 24/7 assist to be just right for you, and begin specializing in rising your WordPress enterprise sooner, simpler, and extra profitably!