Plesk and its uses? Why use plesk?

TarZZ92

@taronyu

thats going direct. we get licenses much cheaper. or in some cases free (dev only)

taronyu

@forthcloud said:
You can also save money by getting a 10-domain or 100-domain license instead of an unlimited-domain license if you only have a few sites.

Ahh okay, is it possible to use these licenses outside Forthcloud?

sz1hosting

Oh nice, i have not looked at there pricing i just knew it wasn't free to buy in most cases.

aldothetroll

@forthcloud said:
Plesk is just an alternative to cPanel. Some good things about it:

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• Fast installation (a few minutes vs a few hours for cPanel)
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• Better UI (my personal opinion)
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• Linux & Windows support (cPanel only supports Linux)
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• Cheaper pricing
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cPanel does support Windows.
http://enkompass.cpanel.net/

sz1hosting

dedicated server $8.80 vps: $3.30 That is very cheap compared to cPanel, does anyone sell shared hosting with plesk?

forthcloud

@taronyu said:
Ahh okay, is it possible to use these licenses outside Forthcloud?

Nope.

@aldothetroll said:
http://enkompass.cpanel.net/

It's EOL. http://cpanel.net/enkompass-eol-notice/

sz1hosting

My licenses are from a data center for 1 of my big servers.

linuxthefish

Bad idea mr sz1, stick to VPS's.

sz1hosting

linuxthefish said: Bad idea mr sz1, stick to VPS's.

I will try Mr.Linuxthefish

Licensecart

I was helping a mate last night on his Plesk control panel, I'm not a fan of it however I do prefer their File Manager though.

sz1hosting

Licensecart said: I was helping a mate last night on his Plesk control panel, I'm not a fan of it however I do prefer their File Manager though.

Some really mixed views on plesk on lowend, well lets see how the vote turns out!

forthcloud

Plesk offers a free software auto-installer (Application Vault). You have to pay at least $1.5/month to get Softaculous on cPanel.

It also uses Nginx as a reverse caching proxy in front of Apache, saves RAM and makes multiple connections faster.

sz1hosting

The wonders of plesk i will have to install it and try it out when i have time.

xDutchy

Plesk is (in my opinion) very good for the not-so-technical users, as soon as you get the hang of it it's quite easy to use. While logged in as admin, you can do pretty much a shitton of changes that normally require CLI access (changing php.ini config, restarting services & the vps. managing the mail queuie and lots, LOTS of other features) without the need of a sysadmin

I have a Plesk Unlimited licence running on a testing VPS at work, although I'm not using it for production, it's merely a testing VPS anyway.

sz1hosting

xDutchy said: Plesk is (in my opinion) very good for the not-so-technical users, as soon as you get the hang of it it's quite easy to use. While logged in as admin, you can do pretty much a shitton of changes that normally require CLI access (changing php.ini config, restarting services & the vps. managing the mail queuie and lots, LOTS of other features) without the need of a sysadmin

I may use plesk for shared hosting maybe due to the feedback here, i will offer plesk and cPanel and see how it goes.

taronyu

Can anyone recommend a reasonable priced host in the EU wich includes a Plesk license? (Except Forthcloud, they are already on my list)

sz1hosting

taronyu said: Can anyone recommend a reasonable priced host in the EU wich includes a Plesk license? (Except Forthcloud, they are already on my list)

We have France and Czech Republic but you have to buy your own license.

wych

Winity.io offer it on their plans, not sure how competitively its priced.

kontam

I've been working with both Plesk and cPanel on a VPS and DS level and Plesk is a piece of shit software. Parallels make good software but Plesk isn't one of them, their support is good though. I prefer cPanel over Plesk any time of the day.

sz1hosting

Oh i see interesting, vote is not going so well for plesk.

dnwk

UI is much better and I don't have to use CentOS

klpowell

Anyone offering cheap external licenses I may be interested in 10-domain one, but finding any good prices seems challenging.

sz1hosting

I would contact them directly @klpowell

wych

@dnwk said:
UI is much better and I don't have to use CentOS

you tried paper lantern on cpanel?

Virtovo

Considered Interworx?

wych

Or VestaCP.

sz1hosting

wych said: VestaCP.

I did a post on cp's and vesta cp got a lot of votes!

dnwk

@wych said:
you tried paper lantern on cpanel?

I saw the screen shot. I personally don't like a whole bunch of icons spread across the screen(expect in Metro style)

dnwk

@klpowell said:
Anyone offering cheap external licenses I may be interested in 10-domain one, but finding any good prices seems challenging.

http://netsys-online.com/plesk

wych

@dnwk said:
I saw the screen shot. I personally don't like a whole bunch of icons spread across the screen(expect in Metro style)

I am the opposite; I hate metro style just wish that they had done the file manager in paper lantern too!