cPanel packages and additional disk quota

[daynight]

Hi

What is the best practice in this situation:

We are selling a hosting package, let's call it "Package A". Package A has 20 GB of disk space. We are also selling additional disk space in blocks of 1 GB.

So we might have a customers:
- Customer 1: 20 GB (from the Package A) + additional 10 GB = 30 GB total disk space
- Customer 2: 20 GB (from the Package A) + additional 5 GB = 25 GB
- Customer 3: 20 GB (from the Package A), no additional disk space
- etc.

You get the picture.

There's two ways how to handle this situation as far as i know.

1) Modify the customer's cPanel account directly and add the additional disk space
2) Create custom-package of Package A for the user and modify the custom package. So we might have packages: Package-A, Package-A-Customer1, Package-A-Customer2, etc

Both ways are making life hard in the future. For example if we need to make a change to the underlying package.

In situation 1:
If we make changes to the Package A which all the users has, all the changes goes directly to the all user's accounts. So they loose additional disk space for example.

In situation 2:
If we make changes to the Package A then we need to make same changes to the all custom-packages as well.

Please tell me there's better way.

 

[cPRex]

Hey there! This has long been an issue with cPanel - you want to add something to a package, but then you realize you need to add it to *every* package, and you end up needing to create an exponential amount of packages.

I'd recommend exploring the Package Extension guide documentation here:

Guide to Package Extensions

With its world-class support and rich feature set, cPanel & WHM has been the industry-leading web hosting platform for over 20 years. Trusted worldwide by our technology partners WordPress, CloudLinux, LiteSpeed, and more.

api.docs.cpanel.net

as that lets you add extensions to already existing packages. While older, we have a blog post that explains this situation nicely here:

Improvements to cPanel Account Package Extensions | cPanel Blog

cPanel & WHM is a very powerful piece of software, that allows server managers to more easily manage their servers. The real power, though, comes from its extendability. In most webhosting environments, cPanel accounts are built using Account Packages. To help cPanel & WHM integrators, we...

blog.cpanel.com

Let me know if that's what you were looking for!