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    Input Enormous price increases yet again for 2025

    Just take a look at Reddit or other forums where people are complaining about Plesk and cPanel for their incomprehensible price hikes. I agree with you on the Porsche 911 example. Plesk is the most advanced system for managing a website today. But now it no longer makes sense to pay $500 a year...
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    Resolved mariadb.service deactivates itself after Plesk update

    In the end, I discovered that I was running low on RAM, which caused the service to reach saturation and shut down. If you don't want to increase the RAM, ask Claude or OpenAI to create a script to restart MariaDB. Once created, you need to upload it to the server via FTP (ask the AI how to do...
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    Input Why I'm quitting Plesk after nearly a decade

    If I were the CFO of Plesk, the sight of this chart would be terrifying. I can only imagine the sheer amount of work you had to endure to migrate all those projects. From the perspective of a Plesk provider like you, their pricing strategy becomes even more incomprehensible. I mean, they lost a...
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    Input Enormous price increases yet again for 2025

    The examples I was giving you were in the same area as yours, a tech company (maybe that's why the discrepancies). I notice that the more tech-savvy the audience becomes, the less they are willing to pay for solutions that can be found elsewhere at a lower cost. Those monthly microtransactions...
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    Input Enormous price increases yet again for 2025

    I have an Office license because it costs me $3.50 per month (I purchased a few years in advance). But I pay it only because the plan includes 1TB of storage for server backups and so on. Fun fact: I don’t use Outlook anyway because, after they introduced ads, I switched to Thunderbird. So, as...
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    Input Enormous price increases yet again for 2025

    Guys, you're all right. I'm the first to love Plesk—it’s been an efficient panel that saved me from manual configurations and saved me time. What I don’t like about Plesk is the monthly formula. And it’s not even about the money itself but the fact that it’s perpetual—I’m forced to pay a...
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    Input Enormous price increases yet again for 2025

    Guys, I'm not here to sell you my ideas but to share the feelings I experienced after making a change that once felt impossible. Let’s start by saying that I’ve been managing and owning websites for many years, and during this time, I’ve spent a lot of money on Plesk. It never really bothered...
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    Input Enormous price increases yet again for 2025

    Just an update, two months after transitioning to a platform with no limits on the number of sites and, most importantly, free of charge. On one of the servers, I went from the 10 sites allowed under the Plesk Web Admin plan to an impressive 18 sites on CloudPanel. This led me to a conclusion...
  9. Gary W.

    Input Enormous price increases yet again for 2025

    I don’t think there’s a 100% equivalent alternative to Plesk. Some "sacrifices" and custom modifications will definitely be necessary. For those managing multiple servers, it’s certainly a costly investment upfront, but in the long term, it pays off, including in terms of control over your...
  10. Gary W.

    Input Enormous price increases yet again for 2025

    The unpredictability of prices for the upcoming year is a limiting factor for any business. Especially for those managing multiple servers, as various licenses start to add up. I think the maximum tolerable increase is around +20% YoY. Increases like this year, however, make switching panels...
  11. Gary W.

    Input Enormous price increases yet again for 2025

    For regular users without specific requirements, any panel works fine. Btw I'm happy for the free year offered by ISPmanager if you migrate from Plesk or cPanel. These guys genuinely want to help their users.
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    Input Enormous price increases yet again for 2025

    DirectAdmin doesn’t support PHP 5.3, which reached its EOL in 2014. CloudPanel doesn’t support it either. I don’t think there’s any panel that supports it natively. Using a PHP version that hasn’t been updated in 10 years is considered risky (you’ll have to set everything up manually)...
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    Input Enormous price increases yet again for 2025

    If you're looking for something corporate-grade that costs less, I recommend DirectAdmin (starts at $5 per month for 20 domains and 2 accounts). I'm currently using CloudPanel, but if I wanted a paid panel with support and quality, I would have chosen DirectAdmin. I'm frugal and have some free...
  14. Gary W.

    Question 22.46% Price Increase - Are you mad?!

    I too have never sought Plesk support. I've posted a few questions on this forum for rare and extreme cases but have never written to an operator. Someone has certainly used this service, but the point is that Plesk's goal is to justify price increases, whereas a good product does not need to...
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    Input Enormous price increases yet again for 2025

    I'm happy to hear that you're changing panels. One action is worth a thousand words. See you on the other side of the (free) Matrix :cool:
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