Activating Module
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Overview
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Amazon Lightsail is an Amazon cloud service that offers bundles of cloud compute power and memory. With this module you can easily resell Amazon Lightsail instances directly from HostBill.
Activating the module
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- If the module is included in your HostBill edition you can download it from your client portal.
- If the module is not included in your HostBill edition you can purchase it from our marketplace and then download it from the client area.
- Once you download the module extract it in the main HostBill directory.
- Go to Settings → Modules → Hosting Modules, find and activate Amazon Lightsail module.
Connecting HostBill with Amazon Lightsail
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- Proceed to "Settings -> Apps -> Add Settings → Apps → Add new App"
- From Applications list select "Amazon Amazon Lightsail"
- Enter:
- Name - Name name of this connection
- Access Key ID - Your your Amazon Access Key ID (in amazon Amazon dashboard click "name Name of the profile" → Your Security Credentials → Access → Your security credentials → Access keys (access key ID and secret access key) → Create New Access Keynew access key)
- Secret Access Key - Your your Amazon Secret Access Key. - Verify entered credentials by clicking "Test Connection"
- Save Changes
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- Test Connection to check if HostBill can connect
- Save changes
To obtain API (access key) and Secret key, proceed to AWS → My account (top right corner ) → Security Credentials → Access Keys → Create access key
Adding Amazon Lightsail Product
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- In your HostBill go to: Settings > Products → Products & Services, and Add new order page.
- From Order Types select "VPS Accounts".
- Enter your orderpage order page name, select orderpage order page template. Save Changeschanges.
- Add new product in the new orderpageorder page. Provide product name, setup price, Save Changessave changes.
- In product configuration section proceed to "Connect with App", select "Amazon Lightsail" and and App server created in the previous steps.
- Setup Package Limits:
- Regions - Select region that will be used to deploy client vmVM
- Blueprints - Select the operating system template that will be used for vmVM.
- Instance plan - Select the virtual machine Virtual Machine specification.
For more generic product configuration details including price, automation, emails settings refer to Product Configuration article.
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You can optionally use "Allow to select by client during checkout" checkbox. |
Configuring Client Functions
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In Products & Services → Your Order Page → Your Product → Client Functions you can control what features customer will have access to in client portal, by clicking Enable/Disable next to the given option.
Use Edit button to adjust function appearance in the client portal.
For Amazon Lightsail you can enable a number of standard client functions:
- Change billing cycle
- Change label
- Change ownership
- Edit forms
- Graphs
- Login details
- Manual service renew
- New direct link
- Related services
- Service auto renewal