day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, we begin feeling this will not come and we should search another alternative, we can't wast a years waiting something that will come after a couple of years !!!! at the moment we are almost out of the market only because we use soft that can't handle the hosting industry as it should, several times we have mentioned that and it appear that the team is not interested in that market. i give a sample case, in our group company we blesta and the other soft,
Blesta, 100 unique visitors per day, only we get arround 7/10 new clients.
Other Soft, 25 unique visitors per day, only we get arround 5/10 new clients.
the two website has the same products and prices. after a deep look in the stats, we found the other soft is getting the clients because it has something that never exist in blesta,
- Bundles Products
- Free Domain in some packages
- Free price for domain transfert
- a simple hosting order form
for other products like licenses, vps, servers, we don't find any issue that can be a major issue for us .
blesta never can be a solution for a big hosters, yes this is the sad reality, it can feat the need for a small company, but for the real hosters isn't. we bloated our blesta with custom plugin to handle some tasks that should be in core, but we can accept this, at less we have a way to do it without hacking the core files, but for others task we can't do anything, as we need to hack core files and redo the work in every upgrade .
the real problem is not the domain manager, the real problem is other tasks that we see it away from the domain manager.
- Multi price (register/transfer/renew)
- Bundles packages
- True Hosting Order form
if the 3 above features exist, the registrar modules can be improved to handle what it left, like dns, forwarding ... ect .
i can't see one of my big brand go down day after day just because it use blesta, is true i love blesta, but i love my brands/companies more.