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Plesk
What is Plesk?
This leading WebOps and hosting platform helps run, grow and automate your apps, sites and business. Trusted with +350K servers, +10M sites and +15M mailboxes. Even accessible in 32 languages and 140 countries. That's why 50% of the top 100 service providers worldwide partner with Plesk today. Want to join the elite? Try Plesk's simpler security and management for free.
Who Uses Plesk?
Web Professionals (Developers, Designers, Agencies)
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Reviews of Plesk
Great, but prefer cPanel
Pros:
Plesk is indeed a great tool. It's complete, it's secure, it has a good performance so yes, it's a great tool. I just don't give it 5 stars because I feel cPanel to be more complete.
Cons:
In my opinion, cPanel is a more complete solution and simpler to use. Have been using both systems for many years now and I always feel that options in cPanel are more intuitive and require less clicks to reach where we want
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Comments: My overall experience with Plesk is great. I use it to manage small project websites. The integrations, such as Laravel, make it easier than ever to manage websites. Coupled with built in backup and the ability to pull websites straight from Git, makes this a dream to work with.
Pros:
Plesk is a feature rich web hosting platform. I like how simple the setup is of Plesk as well as its integrated backup features.
Cons:
It can be overwhelming, as there are many features to Plesk, but with a little perseverance, you can achieve what you need with it.
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Comments: 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.
Plesk for the WIN!
Comments: Plesk has been impressing with every update since I discovered them. Documentation is available and the community forums are great!
Pros:
Securtiy and ease of use. Deployment and management is madd for the average and experienced user.
Cons:
That i hadnt discovered it sooner and saved myself some headaches.
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Comments: I am very happy with Plesk as a web hosting management system. Its pricing is cheaper, features are great, now I do not have to worry about managing my secure server anymore.
Pros:
Plesk is easy to set up, provides a feature-rich user interface for managing multiple websites. Supports Nginx, regular backup, and migration from popular web hosting management systems. The pricing for VPS with 10 domains starts at $11 per month which is an unbeatable price in the industry.
Cons:
Plesk does not offer a single site license.
