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George Tudor
George Tudor

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How to manage, launch and even sell Wordpress sites using Dollie

Are you an agency who wants to manage your clients' sites without any hustle? Are you a SaaS owner who wants to easily sell plugins/themes? Are you a WaaS owner who wants to sell premade sites for various niches? Are you someone who wants to launch a Wordpress site without caring about server management, server performance and infrastructure?

Well, if you fall into any of those categories, I'll show you a tool that does that for you and makes your life 100 times easier.

What is Dollie?

Dollie is an all-in-one solution that includes powerful WP site management tools for any site (hosted on Dollie or somewhere else), a white-label private cloud, and a WordPress plugin which allows you to sell your services directly to your audience under your brand & domain.

What can you do with Dollie?

The answer is simple. Whatever you want. Here's some of the stuff you can do:

  • launch new Wordpress sites in seconds
  • one click login
  • connect your own domain to the site
  • launch demo sites
  • manage any Wordpress site (no matter where it is hosted)
  • create blueprints and deploy new Wordpress sites from an existing blueprint (ready made sites)
  • sell blueprints under your own brand and domain. One click checkout. Allow users to create sites using your ready made blueprints - they get access to all the management tools they need. (you will need the Dollie plugin)
  • monitor your Wordpress sites
  • install/update/activate/deactivate/delete Wordpress plugins and themes from any of your sites
  • update Wordpress Core
  • access to Updates Manager so you can install/update/activate/deactivate/delete Wordpress plugins and themes on multiple sites at once
  • access to SFTP/SSH
  • access to Database Manager
  • log viewer
  • code editor
  • daily backups
  • security monitor
  • seo reports
  • activity reports
  • and many more...

Please note that some of the features that I've listed above are only available when you have your site hosted with Dollie (for example the daily backup feature).

Ok, so that's a long list and a lot to swallow, so let me show you some concrete examples so you can better understand how you can use Dollie.

If you are an agency and you have let's say 100 sites and you need to easily manage them, you can connect them to your Dollie account and easily manage all the updates, one-click login into any of them, have uptime monitors, reports and so on. It basically makes your life much easier.

You can also bring all your sites to Dollie for better management, reports, backups and more, or you can even start using Dollie to launch new sites for new clients with just a click and not worry about servers, performance and infrastructure.

Once a site is launched you can add the customer's domain and ask the customer to point his domain to the site's IP address. Dollie's system will automatically replace the original site's URL with the custom domain and generate a SSL certificate.

You might also need blueprints if you have some repetitive work that needs to be done for each site.

If you are a SaaS or WaaS owner and you want to sell your ready made sites/products/websites, you can easily create a blueprint. A blueprint is basically a site that has everything already installed and whenever you launch a site or your customer launches a site using that blueprint, it gets exactly what's in the blueprint.

If you're selling to your customer you might need a platform to do it, right? Well... you can install the Dollie plugin into your existing Wordpress site or you can have a free site on the Dollie infrastructure. That's your main site where you sell your blueprints. You can decide your own monthly/yearly pricing. Your customers will be able to subscribe and create as many sites as they need and pay you via Stripe or Paypal.

How expensive is Dollie?

You can always start using Dollie for free. You have a free plan that allows you to easily manage your sites (no matter where they're hosted).

If you need more, like launching sites on the Dollie servers, you will have to pay $0.33/day/site. For blueprints you will have to pay $0.16/day/blueprint and for staging sites it's $0.10/day/staging site. That sums up to $10/site/month which is really cheap compared other providers and you get lots of tools on top of that.

Conclusion

If you need to manage multiple sites, want to sell ready made sites and/or need to launch sites and manage them easily, you can register and give Dollie a try.

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