Kickstarting our reseller program with Zone & Ploi Cloud

We've quietly been building a reseller program over the past months. The idea is simple: let hosting providers, deployment platforms, and agencies offer Oh Dear monitoring directly inside their own products. Not a stripped-down version, the full thing.

We're working with several partners to bring Oh Dear into more products and platforms. Zone and Ploi Cloud are the first two out the door.

What's the reseller program? #

If you run a hosting company, a deployment platform, or an agency managing client sites, you probably want monitoring baked into your product. Building that from scratch is a massive undertaking. Uptime checks from multiple global locations, SSL monitoring, broken link detection, performance tracking, DNS change alerts, cron monitoring... that's years of work.

Our reseller program lets you skip all of that. You integrate with our API, and your customers get the full Oh Dear experience inside your platform. You handle the billing and the relationship with your customer. We handle the monitoring infrastructure.

Zone: monitoring as a native hosting feature #

Zone is one of the largest domain registration and hosting providers in the Baltics, operating in Estonia, Finland and Latvia. They now offer Oh Dear monitoring as a native service to all their customers, covering uptime, SSL certificates, broken links, performance, domain expiry, DNS changes, and cron job monitoring.

Their approach to notifications is seamless: Zone customers get a one-click login into the full Oh Dear dashboard, where they can configure exactly which alerts they want and where they should go. Email, SMS, Slack, webhooks, you name it. The customer controls their own notification preferences directly in Oh Dear, without ever needing to create a separate account.

What we love about Zone's integration: they don't just resell it, they use Oh Dear internally too. When your own hosting provider trusts the same monitoring tool they're offering you, that says something.

"Oh Dear is the easy one to implement, because the API makes sense and is easy to work with."

Kaarel Urva, Chief Project Officer at Zone Media

You can read more about their offering in Zone's announcement post.

Ploi Cloud: three clicks to monitoring #

Ploi Cloud is a deployment platform built for developers. Their Oh Dear integration is beautifully simple: navigate to the Monitoring tab, click "Enable monitoring", and you're done. Uptime checks, SSL monitoring, performance metrics, broken link detection, and mixed content scanning, all running within seconds.

Ploi took a different approach to notifications. Instead of sending users to the Oh Dear dashboard, they receive all monitoring alerts through our webhooks and pipe them into their existing notification system. If you've already set up Slack, Discord, Google Chat, or email notifications in Ploi, your monitoring alerts just show up there too. Nothing extra to configure.

Their team described it well: "This isn't a third-party plugin or a workaround, it's a first-class integration built together."

Check out Ploi Cloud's announcement for the full details.

Built on our reseller API #

Both integrations are powered by our reseller API. It gives partners everything they need to build a seamless experience:

• Team provisioning: create and manage separate client teams programmatically
• User management: add users with roles (admin, member, guest) to each team
• Secure login links: generate time-limited login links so customers can access the full Oh Dear dashboard without creating separate credentials
• Monitor management: create, configure, and manage monitors across all client teams through the standard monitors API

The beauty is in the flexibility. Zone gives their customers direct access to the Oh Dear dashboard through login links, so users can configure their own notification preferences. Ploi keeps everything inside their own platform and uses webhooks to feed alerts into their existing notification channels. Both approaches work, both are valid. You tailor it to what fits your product best.

More to come #

Zone and Ploi Cloud are the first two reseller partners we can publicly share, but there are more in the making. We'll announce them as they go live.

If you run a hosting company, a deployment platform, or a service where website monitoring would be a natural fit for your customers, we'd love to talk. Reach out at [email protected] and we'll walk you through the program.