StackRegent partner program for Windows hosting businesses

Who the StackRegent partner program is for#

The partner program is for businesses that run StackRegent on more than a handful of Windows servers, or that sell and support it for their own clients. Four kinds of business usually apply.

Hosting providers and data centers#

You sell Windows shared or reseller hosting, or rent Windows VPS and dedicated servers, and want to offer a control panel with them. Each server gets its own license key, bound to that server's Windows machine ID, so licensing follows the way you already bill for servers: a new server means a new key, a cancelled server means a cancelled key. Installation runs in one line in an elevated PowerShell with the key as a parameter, which fits server templates and provisioning scripts. The hosting providers page covers the product side.

License resellers#

You sell StackRegent licenses to your own customers, often together with installation, migration or management as a service. Every license you buy sits in one account at panel.stackregent.com, with its invoices and its support tickets, so you can reissue a key when a customer moves to new hardware without chasing paperwork.

Web agencies#

You build ASP.NET, PHP, Node.js or WordPress sites and host them for clients on a Windows server you manage. StackRegent gives each client a subscription with its own panel, and customer users and roles let you hand a client's office manager the mailboxes without handing over the databases. Git deployment, Web Deploy publishing, Composer and the Laravel toolkit are in every plan.

Managed service providers#

You look after Windows servers for companies that host their own websites, mail and line-of-business databases. You need a panel your client's staff can use for everyday tasks, monitoring that tells you before they do, and backups that land off the server. StackRegent's monitoring sends email alerts when a value stays high or a service stops, and the Backup Manager can write encrypted backups to FTP, FTPS, SFTP or S3-compatible storage on a schedule.

What partners get#

• Volume terms. If you plan to license many servers, we agree pricing with you based on how many servers, which plans and how licenses will be issued. Standard prices are on the pricing page; volume terms are agreed case by case rather than published as a fixed table.
• One account for every license. All your keys, invoices and tickets in one client area, with reissues handled by ticket.
• A listing on this page. Partners who want it can be listed here with their country, a short description and a link, so companies looking for someone to install, migrate or run StackRegent can find them.
• A direct line to the team. Partner questions go to sales@stackregent.com and technical questions to support@stackregent.com or a ticket, where they are handled by the people who build the product.
• Help with migrations. If your clients are moving from Plesk for Windows or from another StackRegent server, we can talk you through the Migration & Transfer Manager before you schedule the move.

There is no fee to join and no sales quota to meet.

Automating licenses and accounts#

Partners who provision often should not be copying keys and passwords by hand. There is no ready-made plugin for billing systems; instead, two tools let your own billing system or scripts do the work.

The REST API. StackRegent's REST API covers every panel action and comes with an OpenAPI 3 description. An API key acts exactly as the administrator, reseller or customer who created it, so a key made by a reseller can manage only that reseller's customers. Typical partner tasks are creating a customer and subscription when an order is paid, changing a service plan on upgrade, changing a customer's status for non-payment and creating mailboxes or databases. See the developer documentation for keys and examples, and API and automation for an overview.

The command line. On the server, stackregent.exe sets and checks the license key (license-set, license-check), changes the panel port, resets the administrator password and calls the API (stackregent api). The license key can come from an environment variable so it does not appear in command logs. The install script accepts the hostname, components, HTTPS port, administrator email and license key, so a new server can be set up in one unattended run.

The Event Manager can also run your own commands when something happens in the panel, which helps connect StackRegent to monitoring or provisioning systems you already run.

Reseller accounts inside StackRegent#

The partner program is about licensing StackRegent. Do not confuse it with the reseller level inside the panel, which every license includes. On one server, an administrator can create resellers with their own customers, subscriptions, service plans and branding. Resellers can log in to their customers' panels, can be given IP addresses and API keys, and are stopped from creating new accounts when their reseller plan is full. A hosting provider can sell reseller hosting on a StackRegent server without being a partner at all. See resellers and branding.

How to apply#

Fill in the form below with your company, your website, the kind of partner you are and roughly how many licenses you expect in a year. Tell us what you do with Windows hosting today: how many servers, which panel they run now, and whether you plan to resell licenses, host on your own servers or manage servers for clients. The application goes to sales@stackregent.com, and we reply from that address with the terms that fit what you do.

If you prefer, write to sales@stackregent.com directly or use the partner form on the contact page.

Before you apply, you may want to try the product on your own hardware. The free trial gives you 10 days, 3 hosting accounts and every feature, and installs with the same command as a paid license, so what you test is what your customers will get.