The Premium DNS Module will receive no updates until further notice
Openprovider’s premium DNS leverages Sectigo’s advanced DNS infrastructure to provide a single, integrated and easy to adopt solution which offers a 99.99% Uptime Guarantee and near real-time updates, features DDoS protection and blazing fast resolution. While our standard DNS service is sufficient for users who don’t have any special needs when it comes to DNS resolution, the premium DNS service can be an excellent service to your hosting services portfolio.
- Copy the contents of
/modules/servers/openproviderpremiumdnsinto<WHMCS directory>/modules/servers/openproviderpremiumdns - Set up a product with the Openprovider-premiumDNS module (make sure to require a domain) and start selling.
- Note that there is no test environment and records created with the premium DNS module will be billed to your Openprovider account.
Openprovider’s Premium DNS is the latest addition to our product portfolio, and you can offer it to your customers directly via WHMCS. We are extending our successful collaboration with Sectigo, an industry leader in SSL certificates and web security products, to introduce a Premium DNS service that will be the perfect complement to our current, free of charge, standard DNS offering. While our standard DNS service is sufficient for users who don’t have any special needs when it comes to DNS resolution, we recognize the increasing demand of our customers in this area, and we are launching this new product in order to address their needs.
Openprovider’s Premium DNS leverages Sectigo’s advanced DNS infrastructure to provide a single, integrated and easy to adopt solution that offers the following advantages to your customers:
- Blazing Fast Resolution: The first part of a request to your website is typically a DNS lookup. Sectigo’s Premium DNS ensures that your customers are always connected to the closest server, resulting in lower latency and faster access times to your web properties.
- Global Presence: All your DNS zones are pushed to Sectigo’s DNS servers around the globe, ensuring an optimal user experience for your global customers.
- DDoS Protection: DNS is the first step in the journey to your website. Sectigo’s Premium DNS keeps your DNS zone protected from DDoS DNS attacks at all times.
- 99.99% Uptime Guarantee: Sectigo’s built-in smart routing and anycast capabilities ensure that your DNS zones are always online. Your websites will always be accessible regardless of regional disruptions.
- Near Real-Time Updates: Updates to your DNS records are carried out globally in near real-time.
- Competitive Pricing
The Premium DNS module can be used with domains from any registrar, not only domains with Openprovider.
- Navigate to products/services, and create an appropriate product group if necessary.
- Create a new product, and select Other as product type and Openprovider PremiumDNS from the module dropdown
- Select the desired product group and name your DNS product something fun.
- After continuing to the edit product page: on the details tab, check the require domain tickbox.
- Add the desired description and select welcome email options.
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Set up pricing on the pricing tab. Consult your Openprovider account to determine the cost price for provisioning premium DNS.
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Under the module settings tab, enter the credentials for the Openprovider account with which you’d like to provision premium DNS. Select your desired automation settings for provisioning this product.
- Configure any other parameters of the product which you deem necessary and then you're ready to start offering premium DNS to your customers.
The below example shows one way the provisioning module can work from the end user point of view. Various upsell options can be implemented via WHMCS to improve .
- End user selects from the categories sidebar “Premium DNS” (the name of your product group where premium DNS is located) and choose a premium DNS product
- Customer will have several options for choosing a domain to be connected with the premium DNS service:
- Once the customer completes the purchase, the module will provision the premium DNS zone in your Openprovider account.
