How Zipper Host works

Zipper Host is web hosting on the Zipper edge with a real control panel — the Zipper panel. Sites and apps are served through the same edge that runs Zipper itself: custom domains with one-click SSL, visitor analytics, uptime probes, scheduled jobs, and paid nightly backups, all from one place.

Every account starts with a panel site. Sign in and the panel opens on the Overview tab — everything else hangs off the tab strip at the top. See the panel tour below, or jump straight to agents and resellers if you are here to resell hosting under your own brand.

The panel is the control surface for one site. Tabs, and what each one does:

The Apps tab runs your app on the Zipper deploy engine. Pick a framework — Next.js, React, or Angular — in SSR or static mode, deploy, and watch the build log while it runs. A finished SSR app gets a live port; you can restart, stop, or redeploy at any time, and a failed build shows its error instead of failing silently.

Add a custom domain on the Domains tab and point DNS at the Zipper edge — the panel shows whether the record has propagated yet. When it has, bind the domain to the site. SSL is one-click on the Edge & SSL tab: certificates are issued for bound domains and renewed automatically on the edge.

Backups are a paid add-on: nightly snapshots of your site's files with one-click restore (current files are archived before anything is restored). Analytics shows visitor traffic, and Uptime runs probes against your site with an incident history when something goes down. Schedules runs recurring maintenance jobs.

An agent account lets you sell hosting to your own customers. You set the brand, set your prices, and provision customers from one place — while all the infrastructure stays with Zipper Host. Your customers sign in to a panel that carries your brand.

Open an agent account

1. Sign in to zipperhost.com and open the Zipper panel.
2. Go to the Agency tab and register: your brand name, an optional brand domain, and a plan.
3. Your markup table is seeded from the plan and stays fully editable per service afterwards.

Domain search, DNS records, and SSL certificates carry no default markup — the base prices are Zipper Host list prices, and whatever you add above them is your margin. Every quoted operation is recorded in your margin ledger, viewable in the Agency tab.

Provision a customer

In the Agency tab, add a customer with their email and name. Zipper Host creates their account and a dedicated panel site white-labeled to your brand in one step, and hands you a one-time password to pass on. The customer signs in and sees your brand; you keep the relationship and the margin.

The same account, driven over the API. Register from the Agency tab (or the endpoint below), issue API keys, and automate provisioning for your own storefront or billing system.

Authentication

Keys look like zhk_… and are shown exactly once when issued — only their hash is stored. Send one as a bearer token: Authorization: Bearer zhk_…. Revoking a key cuts off access immediately, and each key's last use is tracked. One agent account exists per Zipper user.

Endpoints

Pricing & margin

Services are quoted as Zipper Host list price plus your markup, in cents: domain_search, domain_registration, dns_records, and ssl_certificate. You set the markup per service; the difference between your price and the list price is your margin, recorded per operation in the ledger. Suspended agent accounts lose key access immediately.

Questions about your account or a customer site:}support@tinyzipper.com. Sales and agency partnerships: sales@tinyzipper.com. Platform status lives at tinyzipper.com/status.