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How To Setup WHMCS - One Installation, Multiple Domains?

The company I work for pays for 6 WHMCS licenses. This means 6 different brands that we manage. Unfortunately, since WHMCS devs failed to read a basic PHP web security book, it needs to be updated almost every other week to keep up with the new security vulnerabilities.These 6 installations where all on separate servers. Maintaining each one and having to manually upgrade was ridiculous.

What about domains that were once extremely important, and necessary for business function, that are now no longer relevant?

Let’s say you own a company that sells widgets at the fictitious domain of widgetseller.com. This company is successful for a few years, you make some money, and are happy. Unfortunately something happens and either your business model fails or a life event happens.

But what if that new domain owner doesn’t have good intentions?

Widgetseller.com was YOUR business 8 months ago and now, your old and forgotten domain, is in the hands of someone else.Usually the majority of us don’t care what happens to our expiring domains.

What is to stop someone from, say, receiving emails at their newly acquired domain?

So lets go through this.You owned a business and a website widgetseller.comYou let domain expire as expectedSomeone now has access to your old email addressAll it takes is someone to register your old domain name and setup a catch-all email address for the domain widgetseller.com to then receive emails. What people never think

What should I do?

Your best defense against this type of issue would be to save all your emails since you began using your [email protected] account. Look through all the emails for anything you’d signed up for: services, forums, etc. If the service is no longer necessary, then try to get it deleted or cancelled.