Plesk
About Plesk
Plesk is a a WebOps and hosting platform designed to help web professionals including developers, designers, content managers, and agencies to run, grow, and automate their apps, websites and businesses. The solution offers a full set of security, automation, and technical tools within a single hosting platform, including full and incremental scheduled backups, resource usage tracking, subscription and service plan management, application and extension catalogs, server health monitoring, and more. Plesk is certified to run on all major container and virtualization platforms, in addition to cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
With Plesk, users can manage multiple sites through the centralized dashboard, with the ability to build websites, monitor performance, run updates, and onboard customers from a single interface. Domains, subdomains, and aliases can be added to servers, and users can configure DNS and DNSSEC, and utilize Let’s Encrypt or Symantec SSL for security. Web hosters and IT administrators can create and manage user accounts, roles, subscriptions, and service plans, including resource allocations and access permissions, and limit usage of system resources such as RAM, CPU, and disk I/O. Developers can make use of the ready-to-code environment which supports JavaScript, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Python, .NET, Node.js, and more. The extension and application catalogs allow users to extend Plesk’s functionality with a range of third-party tools.
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- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Plesk
Reviewed on 2022/12/21
Plesk provides awesome web development admin solutions. It's easy to use and doesn't consume much...
Plesk provides awesome web development admin solutions. It's easy to use and doesn't consume much space on my droplets. I'm satisfied working with it and I highly recommend it
Pros
Well, Plesk offers one of the best web management technologies. I personally run 3 WordPress websites that are hosted on the Digital Ocean VPS and I manage every single operation on these websites smoothly using the Plesk panel.Firstly, Plesk is super easy to install and it runs perfectly (without any glitches) on the latest versions of Ubuntu and CentOs. It has too many extensions that are super useful for my site's performance. For example, the speed kit extensions perform better with WordPress than the default Litespeed cache plugin. it's easy to configure and works extremely well.It also provides hard-guard security, run by the Kaspersky anti-virus technology which keeps my websites free from malware attacks and there are just too many positive specs.Plesk is great in terms of security, performance, capability, and affordability. The Web Admin EditionVPS plan is sufficient for my needs.I love how friendly and responsive the customer support service is.
Cons
I have had no negative impressions about this tool so far. It's great as it meets my business needs.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Plesk Review
Reviewed on 2021/11/09
A great experience! If you are uncomfortable with performing updates, changes or maintenance via a...
A great experience! If you are uncomfortable with performing updates, changes or maintenance via a command line. Plesk allows you to perform most of these tasks through a user interface. It's an ideal CRM for web hosting.
Pros
Mostly everything! Plesk is great platform for managing a large number of website for clients. You can create and customise your own subscription plans, limiting or extending resources per client. The software is intuitive and you have available the essential features for managing website hosting.
Cons
One missing feature that would be very useful. The ability to upgrade your databases to newer versions of MySQL (5.5 > Current). Plesk already provides the capabilty to upgrade the PHP versions per website. Having the feature to upgrade the databases would be an extremely useful addition.
Alternatives Considered
WixReasons for Choosing Plesk
We required a better control panel to manage numerous websites and clients.Switched From
cPanel & WHMReasons for Switching to Plesk
We required more customisation and control.- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10
Plesk Review
Reviewed on 2018/08/25
Currently I use plesk to manage my websites, email service and database for my business. And the...
Currently I use plesk to manage my websites, email service and database for my business. And the benefit i enjoy with plesk is their responsive customer service. They have been of help over certain issues but have also not demonstrated technical expertise in some (I had to resolve some of those issues myself).
Pros
Plesk has an easy to navigate panel and has a simple build to help first timers navigate their way through sections without any hassle or third party walk-through. It also has a one-click install option for installing certain apps like wordpress e.t.c
Cons
Although it's easy to navigate Plesk, however the user interface isn't very appealing. An interface like the popular cpanel is preferred. Judging by my experience, the plesk panel only allows you to open one database at a time and therefore limits multitasking (especially when i want to use records from two different databases at the same time).
Unlike Cpanel, installing scripts on plesk takes a more stressful approach.
Finally, i prefer that file permissions on plesk be changed to easily understandable numbers (for instance 644, 777 and so on) as opposed to alphabets.
The plesk panel breaks sometimes and shows error messages that do not apply. For instance, it sometimes throws a "File too large error" for a file less than 50kb.
- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Easy to use, powerful and configurable
Reviewed on 2019/07/24
I work with multiple websites runing WordPress and others CMSs as PrestaShop or Drupal. Plesk let...
I work with multiple websites runing WordPress and others CMSs as PrestaShop or Drupal. Plesk let me configure and optimice every website hosting as I preffer with múltiple options: PHP versions, SSL, Backups, etc. Also, I can work with sync and bulks options. Of course, I can update all the software using web interface o CLI with my own scripts.
Pros
- PHP versions handler and nginx options for every website.
- Full backup options: Incremental and integration with external sites
- Fail2ban and others security options.
- Extensions Catalog for more features
- Updates manager for Plesk and OS system packages.
- WordPress Tool Kit to work with this popular CMS most easy and with bulk options
- Online control panel with intuitive dashboards and CLI options for Shell also
- Manage easy Let's Encrypt and others SSL certificates for every website
- Active 'User Voice' (plesk.uservoice.com)
Cons
- It isn't Open Source.
- It needs better options for configure cache systems.
- It needs more options for limit RAM/CPU and other resources by website/subscription/client.
- It needs easy options for upgrade default PHP version for run by system/Plesk.
- It needs Better support in spanish and others languages.
- There isn't a lot of extensions in catalog
- It needs more options for development stage easy with every website
- It needs license plans more flexibles
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cPanel & WHMReasons for Switching to Plesk
- Active 'User Voice' (plesk.uservoice.com) with continuous updates and new features - Easy to use - License prices- Industry: Broadcast Media
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Excellent Software - The best panel out there!
Reviewed on 2019/11/26
Plesk has changed the way I and the other developers I work with operate. Plesk's built in...
Plesk has changed the way I and the other developers I work with operate. Plesk's built in analytics help us to monitor our server's performance and identify unwanted spikes in RAM, CPU and IO usage. The new dynamic site view is incredibly helpful, as it puts a variety of commonly used controls at your fingertips, without having to delve deep within various menus.
Pros
Plesk enables us to effecively manage all aspects of our server. From managing server-level processes to easily adding adding and customising client applications such as wordpress and joomla, Plesk makes web production infinitely easier than it would be with other well known panels.
Cons
The only con I can come up with is the price! Plesk does come with a cost, however that cost is more than worth it. The only improvement I can offer would be to make the service free, however understandably that would never happen. :)
Plesk FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Plesk.Q. What type of pricing plans does Plesk offer?
Plesk offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$13.50/month
- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
14-day free trial, no credit card required. Web Admin Edition VPS: $13.5/month (billed monthly) or $12.38/month (billed annually). Web Pro Edition VPS: $20.5/month (billed monthly) or $18.79/month (billed annually). Web Host Edition VPS: $35.5/month (billed monthly) or $32.54/month (billed annually). Web Admin Edition Dedicated: $13.5/month (billed monthly) or $12.38/month (billed annually). Web Pro Edition Dedicated: $20.5/month (billed monthly) or $18.79/month (billed annually). Web Host Edition Dedicated: $58.50/month (billed monthly) or $53.63/month (billed annually).
Q. Who are the typical users of Plesk?
Plesk has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Plesk support?
Plesk supports the following languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
Q. Does Plesk support mobile devices?
Plesk supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Plesk integrate with?
Plesk integrates with the following applications:
Acronis Cyber Backup, BaseKit, Docker, Dropbox Business, Google Drive, Joomla, Microsoft Azure, New Relic, OneDrive, REVE Chat, WordPress
Q. What level of support does Plesk offer?
Plesk offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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