{"id":7029,"date":"2018-01-08T09:22:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T08:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/blog\/?p=7029"},"modified":"2021-06-21T17:14:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T15:14:48","slug":"automate-your-reseller-hosting-using-our-new-api","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/blog\/automate-your-reseller-hosting-using-our-new-api\/","title":{"rendered":"Automate your Reseller Hosting using our new API"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Combell\u2019s API for Reseller Hosting, you can manage the features of your hosting packages at Combell directly from your own programming code or tools. But how exactly does it work?<\/span><\/p>\n

What is Combell\u2019s API for Reseller Hosting?<\/span><\/h2>\n

As a reseller of Combell services, you can manage all your products in our My Combell<\/span><\/a> control panel. There, you can create new accounts and adjust settings (DNS records for domain names, extra options for the versions of PHP and countless other minor or major details).<\/span><\/p>\n

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For resellers who want to fully automate this process instead of managing the settings manually via My Combell, Combell provides an API (Application Program Interface<\/b>) that can be integrated with the customer\u2019s own CRM tool or any other kind of provisioning tool.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"ContinuousTogether with Combell\u2019s AutoGit feature, which we discussed in a previous post<\/span><\/a>, the API plays an essential part in the \u201ccontinuous integration, continuous deployment<\/i>\u201d<\/b> process. The API allows you to create a hosting environment from your own tools, and AutoGit allows you to deploy your code in a secure and efficient manner. You are never really done working on a website or a web service \u2013 you constantly need to fix and improve them. This is why Combell offers these tools to customers with Reseller Hosting, so that you can keep optimising your websites without any difficulty.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The API allows you to create a hosting environment from your own tools, and AutoGit allows you to deploy your code in a secure and efficient manner.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A practical example<\/span><\/h2>\n

A Reseller just created a new customer, with his new website bakerjack.be, who wants to upload his website. Instead of logging in manually to the My Combell control panel, the Reseller can (often only once) write programming code, in which he automatically creates the end customer\u2019s account, registers the domain name, creates the mailboxes and adjusts all the settings. This way, the website is created while his code is uploaded. Pretty handy, right?<\/span><\/p>\n

Creating an account:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Create<\/p>\n

Registering a domain name:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Registering<\/p>\n

Creating a mailbox:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Creating<\/p>\n

Find out more about Combell\u2019s API<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

What can you do with the API?<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n

However, the API goes much further than that\u2026 Actually, you can have almost everything you do manually in the Combell control panel executed via the API from your programming code. Not everything is possible (yet), but Combell intends to further develop the API with extra features depending on the requests of our Resellers.<\/span><\/p>\n

A quick overview of the methods that are currently available:<\/span><\/p>\n