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<p>Hosting Controller has extensive hosting plan facilities, allowing you 
 to purchase host plans and view the details of already purchased plans.</p>

<p>Few concepts are necessary to understand the working of plan manager.</p>

<ul type="disc" class="whs5">
	
	<li class=kadov-p><p><span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Plan: </B></span>A 
 plan is a special package that offers specific resources to the buyer.</p></li>
	
	<li class=kadov-p><p><span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Resource:</B></span> 
 A resource is any item that is offered as part of a hosting plan and possibly 
 is chargeable. e.g. Mail Boxes.</p></li>
	
	<li class=kadov-p><p><span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Plan Instance:</B></span> 
 A sold plan is called plan instance. One customer can have one or more 
 plan instances.</p></li>
</ul>

<p class="whs6">How does it work: <span style="font-weight: normal;">The 
 plan manager is designed in such a way that it fits in the business model 
 of almost every hosting company. The concept of plan manager is based 
 on classic quota system where certain quantity (called unit now) of offered 
 features (called resource now) was assigned to each client and the client 
 was restricted to usage within assigned quantity. The plan manager works 
 in similar fashion.</span></p>

<p class="whs7"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>What is 
 plan made up of:</B></span> Each plan is made up of following three components</p>

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	<li class=kadov-p><p class="whs9"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Resource(s):</B></span> 
 There may be one or more resources in a plan. e.g. SQL database, SSL certificate, 
 Mailboxes etc.</p></li>
	
	<li class=kadov-p><p class="whs10"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Quantity:</B></span> 
 The amount of resource in plan. e.g. 25 Mailboxes, 2 SQL databases.</p></li>
	
	<li class=kadov-p><p class="whs11">Price:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> 
 The price is not counted against individual resource in plan; instead 
 the price is commulative cost of all the resources in a plan.</span></p></li>
</ul>

<p class="whs12">The quantity of resources in plan decides 
 the ability of customer to utilize that resource.</p>

<p class="whs13">This is important to note here that total 
 quantity of a resource is sum of quantity of that resource in all the 
 purchased plans. Let's take an example here.</p>

<p class="whs14">Customer ABC: <br>
<br>
 <!--kadov_tag{{<spaces>}}-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<!--kadov_tag{{</spaces>}}-->---------- 
 Purchased Plan A : 10 Websites (resource)<br>
 <!--kadov_tag{{<spaces>}}-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<!--kadov_tag{{</spaces>}}-->---------- 
 Purchased Plan B : 50 Website, 5 MS SQL Database (resource)<br>
<br>
Total website for customer ABC <!--kadov_tag{{<spaces>}}-->&nbsp;<!--kadov_tag{{</spaces>}}-->: 
 10+50 = 60 websites<br>
Total database for customer ABC: 5 database</p>

<p class="whs15"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>What will 
 happen when a resource is exhausted in purchased plan:</B></span> When a resource 
 is exhausted in purchased plan, the customer is presented with two options.</p>

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	<li style="/*begin!kadov{{*/ font-weight: normal; /*}}end!kadov*/ "
		class=kadov-p><p class="whs17">Purchase only exhausted 
 resource from his host, if offered. Plan containing only one resource 
 is called 'Resource Plan'.</p></li>
	
	<li style="/*begin!kadov{{*/ font-weight: normal; /*}}end!kadov*/ "
		class=kadov-p><p class="whs18">Purchase the same 
 plan again, if resource plan is not offered.</p></li>
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<p class="whs19">Customer can purchase plan any time from 
 Plan Manager-&gt;Purchase Plan. Refer to <a href="buying_a_host_plan.htm">Buying 
 a host plan</a> for more details.</p>

<p class="whs20"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><B>Am I allowed 
 to switch plans:</B></span> Yes, plan manager allows plan switching. When 
 you want to switch plan, a support ticket is supposed to be issued to 
 your host and the host will then switch the plan.</p>

<p class="whs21">Topics:</p>

<p>- <a href="viewing_purchased_plans.htm">Viewing purchased plans</a><br>
- <a href="listing_host_plans.htm">Listing host plans</a></p>

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