Hey, internet developer! What number of websites do you suppose you possibly can 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 publish, we’re going to present you how you can simply resell white-label internet hosting, create epic websites in minutes, automate website administration duties (for lots of of them), run all of it seamlessly beneath your personal model, and even arrange subscriptions that deal with themselves.
Able to reside the dream? Lock your self in!
On this article, you’ll learn to simply handle limitless WordPress websites utilizing one-click plugin configurations, automated updates, hands-free backups, and 24/7 website monitoring, plus add white label internet hosting reselling with built-in shopper billing, arrange immediately optimized shopper 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 can assist you pace up your workflow and enhance income:
We’ll additionally contact on a few 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 shopper websites, WPMU DEV has your online business wants absolutely lined proper from the get-go.
Every little thing it is advisable to run your WordPress enterprise is included together with your membership and already arrange and able to use as quickly as you be a part of (not a member but? Try us free!).
So, in your Member’s dashboard, you possibly can simply go from this…
To this, in just some clicks, for each website you handle…
Every little thing takes place from The Hub, which is your central administration console and WordPress enterprise HQ. The Hub helps you to handle limitless purchasers websites…from internet hosting, website setup and configuration, to updating core, plugins, and themes, optimizing website efficiency, managing safety, website positioning, working backups, website monitoring, shopper reviews, and extra…even accessing our 24-7 help.
As you will note in a second, virtually all the things in The Hub may be arrange with a couple of clicks and configured to run mechanically.
Moreover, as a member, you might be immediately given white label hosting reseller standing and entry to our shopper billing and administration techniques (additionally white label, after all)…all totally free!
We’ll contact on these areas (and extra) in only a second. The takeaway right here is that all the things it is advisable to run your WordPress enterprise is included with WPMU DEV, already arrange, and able to use.
Let’s present you now how you can save time and earn money simpler, sooner, and higher than you ever imagined together with your WordPress enterprise.
It’s as straightforward as 1-2-3:
- Save Time with Simple and Speedy Site Creation
- Save Time Hosting and Managing Client Sites
- Generate Monthly Recurring Income with Hosting Reselling and Client Billing
Save Time with Easy and Speedy Web site Creation
The Hub helps you to simply handle shopper web sites hosted on Third-party hosts (utilizing our Dashboard plugin) or hosted with WPMU DEV utilizing varied choices.
If you’re internet hosting websites with us, you’ll discover a variety of easy and speedy methods to arrange your websites.
You possibly can migrate an present shopper website with no internet hosting downtime utilizing our migration options, or…
Spin Model New Websites Loaded with Cool Options and Advantages
If you create a model new website in The Hub utilizing WPMU DEV’s managed WordPress internet hosting, your website is mechanically arrange and configured by itself remoted, compartmentalized, and absolutely secured server with a complete vary of subsequent degree cool options added like:
And all of that is carried out mechanically for you in seconds if you click on the “Create Web site” button.
Establishing blazing quick internet hosting in your purchasers’ websites is just the start.
Now…what about really constructing web sites in your purchasers? Does WPMU DEV assist make this course of faster and simpler too?
Will we ever!
Let’s say that your shopper wants a hosted web site – pronto!
The quickest means to do that is by mechanically having one able to go.
You possibly can pace up your site-building course of utilizing our Templates characteristic or by Cloning a site.
Let’s take a short take a look at these strategies.
Choose from Wonderful Templates or Create Your Personal for Free
To assist pace up your website improvement course of, we provide a rising library of free skilled website templates to swimsuit a complete vary of functions, from blogs, to small companies and advertising companies, skilled companies, non-profit websites, eCommerce, and extra.
You possibly can select a premade template from our rising library or take one among your present websites and reserve it as a customized template for future use. Learn more about using templates.
Clone WordPress Websites for Fast and Computerized Web site Creation
One other method to pace up your website improvement is to immediately clone an existing site or template.
Cloning eliminates the necessity to construct a web site from scratch. Merely select which web site you wish to clone, and your new website is prepared.
Try our documentation part to be taught extra about creating and cloning site templates and cloning websites.
Now that you already know it can save you time spinning and establishing a brand new web site, let’s take issues one step additional…
Optimize Important Plugins Quicker with Configs
Think about that you’ve got simply spent a whole lot of time engaged on a shopper’s website. You’ve tweaked and optimized it to make it extremely quick and tremendous safe.
Now…do it’s important to go and do that yet again for the subsequent website 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 mechanically get entry to our whole suite {of professional} plugins (pace optimization, safety, website positioning, white-labeling, advertising, analytics, and extra), however with our one-click Plugin Configs, you possibly can simply re-apply your already constructed setups to all different WordPress websites that you simply handle.
Configs take out the entire painstaking handbook tweaking and changes required to arrange particular person shopper websites.
You possibly can immediately apply preset or customized configs to your most popular WPMU DEV plugins (and Uptime monitoring – see additional beneath) on limitless websites – all in a couple of clicks.
Learn more about Configs and take a look at the temporary video beneath.
Remember the fact that when you 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 rushing and setting issues up…
Set Up & Handle Electronic mail and DNS with No Fuss, No Mess, No Stress
“My purchasers are at all times tremendous organized with their logins and passwords!”
…mentioned no web site developer ever!
Time is cash and an effective way to avoid wasting time (and cash) is to be organized when managing vital shopper website particulars for companies like area registrars, DNS information, e-mail logins, and so on.
With WPMU DEV, you possibly can arrange and handle all this beneath one roof. From registering and managing domains (coming quickly!), to setting up client emails, and managing their DNS.
An typically neglected time-saving good thing about managing DNS your self is you can:
- Quickly arrange shopper websites that you’re engaged on utilizing your personal area identify (e.g. client1.yourbusiness.com), after which…
- Simply switch the positioning over to your shopper’s area as soon as they’ve signed off and paid for it.
Be taught extra about setting up emails on WPMU DEV’s managed WordPress hosting and configuring DNS.
Now that we’ve checked out methods to avoid wasting time creating new shopper websites, let’s present you how you can…
Save Time Internet hosting and Managing Shopper Websites
Whether or not you select to host sites with WPMU DEV, host websites elsewhere, or work with a mix of each is totally as much as you.
The Hub makes it straightforward so that you can handle all your 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 shopper websites.
Simply think about how a lot time you would need to spend manually logging into every particular person website to examine and replace that website’s core, plugins, and themes.
The Hub helps you to view, handle, and replace all of your shopper websites from one display with a couple of clicks.
As soon as your websites are arrange in The Hub, you don’t even must log into every website’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 website). With a number of websites to keep up, this may flip in a short time right into a life-sucking time-consuming chore (yawn!).
On the subject of website upkeep and updates, The Hub is your good friend certainly in instances of want.
- Have to replace a plugin, theme, or WordPress core model? One-click…carried out!
- Have to ignore core, plugin or theme updates that may trigger issues on some or all your websites? One-click…carried out!
- Have to disable plugins and themes on WordPress multisite installations? One-click…carried out!
Robotically Replace All Your Shoppers’ Core, Plugins, and Themes
Wish to replace all of your purchasers’ websites mechanically at a handy time that fits you?
The Hub not solely helps 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 too can automate the whole course of to swimsuit a selected time for your online business (e.g. throughout working hours if you end up accessible to obtain notifications about any potential points together with your shopper websites).
Kick issues up a notch with Automate, the software that provides you protected, scheduled, backed up, safe, and automatically-accessed updates.
Automate helps you to run automated or handbook core, plugin, and theme updates for all of your websites and run scheduled backups too.
This software additionally contains superior options to make sure that updates received’t break your websites. For instance, earlier than updating something, Automate will make an entire backup of your website(s), run error checks and take pre- and post-update snapshots of the websites, evaluate these to be sure that all the things goes easily, and even ship you e-mail reviews with uptime and error checks with screenshots if any variations are detected.
You possibly can simply arrange Automate out of your Hub in just some clicks by going to Plugins & Themes > Automate.
Right here you possibly can select to replace all plugins and themes mechanically or manually, supplying you with full management of your replace processes.
With Automate, you too can select replace instances, whether or not to backup your whole website earlier than every replace, arrange e-mail alerts, permit purchasers to obtain replace reviews, and extra.
You may also simply tweak websites for particular updates.
So, use Automate to supply a world-class updating service to all of your managed shopper websites with full “set it and neglect it” automation.
For extra on Automate, make sure to read our documentation.
Talking of plugins, right here’s one other time-saving characteristic in 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 you probably have lots of of WordPress plugins put in throughout many alternative websites, you possibly can handle all of them (free and premium) from one handy place, proper from The Hub > My Plugins web page.
The My Plugins web page helps you to search, filter, favourite, bulk set up (together with importing from Zip information 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 preserving all of your plugins organized and readily accessible.
Try our documentation part to be taught extra about configs or watch the video beneath to see how straightforward, handy, and time-saving this characteristic actually is:
Delegate, Collaborate, and Make Your Group Work Nice
WPMU DEV’s platform helps limitless enterprise enlargement, so you possibly can develop your WordPress enterprise as large as you want…and we’ll develop with you.
Our Team characteristic helps you to simply give a number of customers (together with non-WPMU DEV members) and extra staff members managed entry to the Hub.
You possibly can grant or limit entry to all or any of The Hub options and even create customized roles.
Be aware: Group members won’t have entry to your WPMU DEV membership particulars (or some other options of your account, like live-chat help) however can use all of the Hub options on the websites they’ve permission to entry.
A good higher method to save time than delegating and collaborating is automating, so let’s flip again to some extra website administration time-saving options of The Hub you can automate in your WordPress enterprise.
Present 24/7 Web site Monitoring and Instantaneous Automated Downtime Reviews with Uptime
Your purchasers pay you to verify 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 website’s not working because it ought to.
So, what in regards to the instances if you’re not round to examine on all of your managed websites?
No downside! Meet Uptime.
Uptime frequently and mechanically screens and tracks your websites’ uptime and efficiency and helps you tackle any points earlier than they turn out to be issues. It sends you (and your shopper, if you want) on the spot downtime updates with particulars like uptime, downtime, response time, and alerts so you will get websites again on-line rapidly with the assistance of our 24/7 reside help.
You may also use configs with Uptime to implement your favourite website monitoring settings throughout all present and new websites with just some clicks.
To be taught extra about establishing and utilizing Uptime to mechanically remove your website babysitting chores, see this article.
Automate Internet hosting Backups
Half of your peace of thoughts comes from figuring out that each one your managed websites are up and working problem-free.
The opposite half is ensuring that you’ve got arrange automated hosting backups.
Little doubt you’ve made positive that your purchasers know that website 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 can assist you together with your WordPress enterprise.
Should you handle third-party hosted websites, use our Snapshot Pro plugin to create extra backups and supply further safety and safety for his or her companies.
Snapshot helps you to schedule protected and safe incremental backups and mechanically add these to remote storage destinations (e.g. Amazon S3, Google Drive, Dropbox), obtain on the spot e-mail alerts and notifications, and even white label the plugin as a part of your companies.
Should you host websites with WPMU DEV internet hosting backups are taken care of mechanically. There’s actually nothing it is advisable to do.
We now have you utterly lined with one-click restores, nightly incremental backups, automated incremental internet hosting backups earlier than important occasions (e.g. WordPress updates), an entire backup of your websites created each 15 days, and even 30 days of distant & off-site backups within the unlikely occasion that our information middle will get swallowed up by a sinkhole.
If you would like much more peace of thoughts, you possibly can create handbook or cloud backups at any time. And since our hosted websites and backups reside on utterly completely different architectures, you might have the final word peace of thoughts figuring out that there’s at all times one thing to fall again to in case surprising disasters strike.
Our automated internet hosting backups are dependable (100% guaranteed), redundant, and use the most recent in superior server-based expertise with virtually no server load, so it’s quick (almost instantaneous) and very space-efficient.
Additionally, we don’t cost extra charges in your internet hosting backups or their storage.
All this hands-free backup automation not solely provides your purchasers full peace of thoughts, it additionally provides you a license to print cash. Merely embrace it as a part of your companies, set it up, and allow us to deal with it for you.
Talking of ka-ching, let’s now flip to methods we will help you save time and earn more money together with your WordPress enterprise.
Generate Month-to-month Recurring Income with Internet hosting Reselling and Automated Shopper Billing
Should you present WordPress companies, reselling internet hosting is a no brainer method to generate extra income for your online business…particularly when you can model it as your personal!
Your WPMU DEV membership contains The Hub Client, which turns you into an on the spot white label hosting reseller and free (and fee-free) client billing magement and automation.
Resell White Label Internet hosting
With our white label internet hosting, you possibly can resell internet hosting bundled as a part of your companies, or individually. It’s utterly as much as you.
The Hub Shopper may be arrange by yourself area and absolutely personalized to match your model identify, brand, colours, and so on.
From The Hub Shopper, you too can promote and cost subscriptions for automated updates, efficiency optimization, safety, website positioning, backups, analytics, uptime monitoring, weekly reviews and internet hosting.
You may also present on-the-spot reside chat help to purchasers straight out of your Hub website by integrating HubSpot, LiveChat or Tawk.to reside chat widgets, and create, model, and customise a number of Hub Shopper website installs…all from one WPMU DEV account.
Learn more about The Hub Client.
Automate Shopper Billing
Shopper billing helps you to promote something you need, not simply WordPress companies (acquired merch but?).
You should utilize shopper billing to generate personalized PDF invoices, create and handle automated shopper subscriptions, cost purchasers and ship e-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 shopper billing fee processing at the moment integrates with Stripe (extra fee choices coming quickly), giving your purchasers a safe one-click checkout expertise with seamless fee deposits into your account…and “0” transaction charges!
There’s a TON of options that our Shopper Billing provides you that can assist you run your online business extra effectively, together with white-label and customized invoicing, e-mail notifications, monitoring energetic subscriptions, and so on.
Try our article on fee free client billing to learn to begin automating your incoming income in the present day. Additionally, for extra insights on the advantages of reselling WordPress companies, take a look at our epic story on how Bob builds a website for a car wash client.
Don’t Wait to Automate…Begin Rising Your WordPress Enterprise At this time
It doesn’t matter what sort of WordPress enterprise you run…whether or not you’re a solo freelance web site developer or a rising WordPress company, WPMU DEV’s acquired your again.
The Hub saves you time managing all of your purchasers’ websites and our white label internet hosting reselling and shopper billing helps you earn more money. Already, you possibly can rapidly and simply arrange, configure, handle, and invoice your purchasers mechanically, 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 shopper portal the place it is possible for you to to promote your merchandise, companies, and add-ons straight, your purchasers will be capable to view a pricing desk for various merchandise & companies (e.g. internet hosting, domains, and so on.) based mostly in your outlined pricing plans, and all bought gadgets can be mechanically deployed to their portal with no extra effort required from you.
Should you’re not a WPMU DEV member but, try us free and take a look at all the things we provide for your self. Put all of our time-saving website administration instruments, award-winning plugins, white-label internet hosting, shopper billing automation, and 24/7 help to be just right for you, and begin specializing in rising your WordPress enterprise sooner, simpler, and extra profitably!
