Question 22.46% Price Increase - Are you mad?!

[SDGPete]

We have Plesk Web Host Edition.

We don't use it as a reseller or any of the reseller functions, we utilise the unlimited domains feature for the clients we manage (we're a web design company).

Last year in November we paid £598.95

I've just received an email from Cleverbridge saying it'll be £733.50!!! That's an increase of £134.55 = 22.46%.

How can Plesk legitimise that huge increase??

If this price is to remain then Plesk needs to make it possible to increase the domain limit of 30 domains within Pro Edition to unlimited.

 

[J.Wick]

Agreed.
We're most likely going to move to CloudPanel.

 

[Maarten]

I found out that Oakley, the parent company of WebPros (which owns Plesk), sold WebPros in 2019 to another investment firm, CVC Fund VII:
Oakley Capital agrees sale of WebPros to CVC Fund VII

This means we’re stuck in a cycle of price increases because these investments need to deliver returns. It's ridiculous, really, as the end users are the ones who suffer from these huge price hikes.

It's frustrating that the financial interests of these firms keep pushing prices up without any real consideration for the customers who rely on the product.

 

[HHawk]

It's amusing to recall that earlier this year, both IgorG and Peter Debik assured me I was exaggerating. And yet, here we are: more and more users are voicing their frustrations over these relentless, annual (and frankly, absurd) price hikes. I suspect this may indeed be the breaking point. Rest in peace, Plesk!

I imagine that CVC, our latest investment overlords, might soon notice a dip in profits and decide to offload Plesk to yet another party. Assuming, of course, there's still someone willing to buy a ship that’s already taking on water. If not, perhaps we’ll see Plesk sold off to some obscure company in Russia—though I’m sure that would bring a fresh set of complications.

 

[J.Wick]

It's amusing to recall that earlier this year, both IgorG and Peter Debik assured me I was exaggerating. And yet, here we are: more and more users are voicing their frustrations over these relentless, annual (and frankly, absurd) price hikes. I suspect this may indeed be the breaking point. Rest in peace, Plesk!

I imagine that CVC, our latest investment overlords, might soon notice a dip in profits and decide to offload Plesk to yet another party. Assuming, of course, there's still someone willing to buy a ship that’s already taking on water. If not, perhaps we’ll see Plesk sold off to some obscure company in Russia—though I’m sure that would bring a fresh set of complications.

If Plesk were sold to a company in Russia, the US would sanction and ban it from being used, just as they did to Kaspersky.

 

[HHawk]

If Plesk were sold to a company in Russia, the US would sanction and ban it from being used, just as they did to Kaspersky.

Well I wouldn't be surprised. Plesk (or the investment group behind it, which calls the shot) follows the money... :-O