Being a web and graphic designer, it was only a matter of time until I also started hosting my own clients websites. With this came a whole new set of problems and learning experiences that I would have to cope with to get to the promise land.

I began my web hosting career by just signing up as a reseller from GoDaddy which isin’t the best reseller program, but it worked for me for a solid 2 years. I now have moved on to greener pastures however. Thanks to my friend and business partner Andy I have now stepped into the real hosting game, my own dedicated server.

And now that just presented a whole new set of problems to tackle. When you have your own dedicated server, there are no built in payment processors, no easy sign-up forms to get customers web hosting accounts set up, and on and on.

So what did I do? First I had to install a script that would automatically create web hosting accounts for my customers on my server, and then I had to have a payment processor to do the dirty work of getting me paid.

I went with a very stable and easy to use hosting billing management script called Whois Cart and opted to use PayPal’s relatively new Web Payments Pro service to capture the funds from the customers.