Recent content by Gary W.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...