Download websites that use Blesta

About Blesta

Billing software is bought by companies that sell subscriptions, so a fingerprint for it is really a fingerprint for a business model. Blesta automates invoicing, renewals, provisioning hooks and support tickets for web hosts, registrars and managed service providers, which means the sites running it are not shops or publishers but suppliers of recurring digital services to somebody else.

The inversion matters when reading the list. A technology dataset usually tells you what a company uses. A billing install tells you what a company sells, and in this case it identifies a sector that is otherwise hard to enumerate: small and mid sized hosting providers, a good number of them resellers, most of them well below the visibility threshold of industry reports and directories.

The product comes from Phillips Data, Inc. under a Proprietary licence, is written in PHP, and dates from 2013. Licensed software of that kind installs on the provider's own server, normally at a client area or billing path rather than at the root of the marketing site, which is where detection becomes awkward and where the published count begins to understate the real population.

As of October 2026 we detect Blesta on 46 sites. Not every one of those is a paying licence holder, since the vendor lets an operator install the complete product and run it on trial before buying, but the count reflects hostnames whose public pages expose the panel and not every deployment that exists. A provider who keeps billing on an unlinked subdomain, or who themes the client area heavily enough to remove the telltale markup, is running the software and staying out of the list.

For a researcher the population is the point. Payment gateways, domain registrars, server and datacentre vendors, control panel makers and everyone else selling into the hosting industry needs a list of hosting providers, and no directory is complete, because the long tail of the sector is thousands of small operations that never register anywhere. Working backwards from the billing software is a practical way to find them. Choice of billing platform also sorts that tail in a useful way, since self hosted licensed software indicates an operator who wants control of their own stack rather than one renting everything from a larger provider.

Checking a domain you already know tells you what one host runs. The question worth paying for is which hosts exist at all, and that is a question only a full list can answer.