Recent content by Gary W.

You used the term 'hostage' and you were right, because it's very fitting. Plesk was acquired by venture capital firms whose only goal is to milk the cow. I wish you the very best.

Welcome to the club. That's exactly why I left Plesk a couple of years ago, and I couldn't be happier.

Let's not make this harder than it needs to be. Plesk's prices have increased disproportionately, which will inevitably put pressure on hosting providers. Users will gradually gravitate towards cheaper solutions that perform just as well. In short, Plesk is destined to disappear within the next...

I migrated my entire infrastructure to another server panel that is completely free. I'm already saving three-digit amounts, I'm so happy. Plesk was really the best before it became greedy.

I don't like Webmin's UX and design. Look at it: This is CloudPanel. Minimal, easy, fast and has Varnish native support.

I’ve always used Plesk, but after realizing I was paying $500 a year for licenses, I started looking around and was lucky enough to have AI on my side. So I set up my server for the first time: installed CloudPanel, Fail2Ban, learned how to configure email with another provider (since CloudPanel...

Thank you for your advice. As you can see, we’re all already in the trenches here. It’s no longer just a matter of money but a principle; no longer wanting to be puppets of Plesk. We don’t know what Plesk’s price will be six months or a year from now, and that uncertainty keeps everyone on edge.

CloudPanel supports primarily Ubuntu and Debian. I don't have experience with APIs or Event triggers.

I've been using CloudPanel for 8 months and I'm very satisfied with it. I only installed fail2ban manually, but other than that, the panel has everything I need. From Let's Encrypt to backups, it's very solid and fast. I have absolutely no complaints. My projects are 80% on WordPress, so PHP...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...