Plesk Reviews

Name: Plesk
Brand: Plesk
Rating: 4 (6 reviews)

Vendor: Plesk

4.1 out of 5

6 reviews
83% willing to recommend

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Plesk is a user-friendly graphical interface for managing hosting platforms, particularly for Windows-based developers. It is used for hosting websites and emails on the cloud and is popular among system administrators and freelancers. Its most valuable features include the WordPress toolkit for enhanced security, easy plugin updates, and extensions like Imunify for all-in-one security.

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Plesk is the #2 ranked solution in top Web Hosting Control Panel solutions. PeerSpot users give Plesk an average rating of 8.2 out of 10. Plesk is most commonly compared to CentOS CWP: Plesk vs CentOS CWP. Plesk is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 44% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a comms service provider, accounting for 21% of all views.

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Zohair Helmy

System Administrator at Upwork

Dec 5, 2022

I'm not satisfied with the backup. The website files, ownership, and permissions on Plesk aren't clear at all. We need monitoring for the websites. For some sites that aren't up-to-date, any attackers could upload malicious codes to the website. There isn't any kind of monitoring for malicious codes. I would also like some kind of protection for the applications we put on the server. These wouldn't be normal firewalls, but firewalls that check the logs of the websites and issue an email with an alert when something wrong is happening to the website. There should be some sort of firewall that is specified for app protection. I have also faced some difficulty in moving the websites away from Plesk. Plesk doesn't work in synchronization mode. There's no ability to transfer configurations from old servers to new servers.

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Kaushal Bhavsar

Research And Development Manager at Pratikar Technology Foundation

Dec 2, 2022

The speed of the user interface is something that could be improved. People think that Plesk is slow because the user interface has a lot of elements and sometimes takes time to load. The operation takes place in the background but the UI fails to communicate that to the user. If the UI could be upgraded to increase the speed or something, that might change user perception. For anyone coming from a Linux background, it creates the impression that the control panel is slow. An added feature I'd like to see is functionality in the email sphere because sometimes we need emails for solely transactional purposes and it would be helpful to have that integrated into the solution.

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Yilmaz Cagri Isbuga

Co-Owner at Tekbilge Internet Technologies Ltd & IDA LTD

Jan 10, 2023

We use this solution to host websites and to manage web projects We have experienced bugs when using the graphical interface. They are small bugs that are fixable but this is an area that could be improved. In a future release, I would like to be able to use GitLab for stories. I have experienced…

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Plesk market share

As of March 2024, the market share of Plesk in the Web Hosting Control Panel category stands at 4.7%, marking a decrease of 27.7% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"The initial setup is straightforward. Everything is structured on Plesk with a library. It is really easy to install."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use."
"They have a very good UI."

Room for Improvement

"We have experienced bugs when using the graphical interface. They are small bugs that are fixable but this is an area that could be improved."
"They need to compete with their competitors like AWS and Azure. One example is I would like to see a load balancer feature."
"If you are not savvy, there should be an option where the company can add cushions to assist. For example, I should be able to find suggestion options or frequently asked questions easily to help me move forward."

Pricing

"We have a 40% discount. The cost is approximately 25 dollars per device per month."
"The price of Plesk is reasonable compared to the competition and that is why the management went with using Plesk."
"The license cost has been increasing, it was $12 per month and now it's reached $16 per month."

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Top industries

By visitors reading reviews

Comms Service Provider

21%

Media Company

11%

Computer Software Company

11%

Government

Educational Organization

Non Profit

Construction Company

Healthcare Company

Hospitality Company

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

University

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

Real Estate/Law Firm

Energy/Utilities Company

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Learn more about Plesk

Plesk has helped organizations manage dedicated hosting for customer government companies with easy SSL setup and access to the file manager. It eliminates the need for support tickets and offers a stable and reliable control panel with good technical documentation.