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Input Enormous price increases yet again for 2025
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J.Wick
Regular Pleskian
I think Plesk is raising its rates because it knows the future of the web is AI and that websites of the future will be food for AI answer engines, which won't need hosting control panels and sophisticated websites that never get visited. I can see GeoCities making a comeback, supported by Big Tech and free for everyone to publish to.
@Deleted member (and @manni),
Seeing this
I must ask : you are both aware of the fact that one can work around the one-server-one-plesk-license model?
In a rather simplified explanation : just loop a number of servers together, use one server for Nginx (as a proxy), use one server for databases and one server for the one-and-only Plesk instance.
This can be done in the cloud and in datacenters.
In the past, it was rather impractical and - depending on software used and the purpose of the Plesk cluster - not economically viable in most cases.
It should be economically viable now.
In essence, Plesk is more scalable than one might expect.
Kind regards....
PS I really wish now that I did not delete that working Plesk cluster in the past. It would have been a good example, ready to rock-and-roll.
Seeing this
I must ask : you are both aware of the fact that one can work around the one-server-one-plesk-license model?
In a rather simplified explanation : just loop a number of servers together, use one server for Nginx (as a proxy), use one server for databases and one server for the one-and-only Plesk instance.
This can be done in the cloud and in datacenters.
In the past, it was rather impractical and - depending on software used and the purpose of the Plesk cluster - not economically viable in most cases.
It should be economically viable now.
In essence, Plesk is more scalable than one might expect.
Kind regards....
PS I really wish now that I did not delete that working Plesk cluster in the past. It would have been a good example, ready to rock-and-roll.
Please don't make such stupid assumptions. Overall, I am pretty much fed up with your posts. They are rants against the panel only. What's the point of this? If you don't want to use the panel, don't use it. But you are constantly trying to convince others that they should not use it either. You seem to have too much spare time and too little to worry about.
@Bitpalast
I fully agree with
but I would like to hint - with all due respect - that the other parts of your post are related to something that we should not give into : polarization.
This whole topic thread has become - more and more - a battle between two camps that cannot convince each other, with polarization as the endresult.
This endresult is not desirable, not at all.
Plesk pricing is highly related to (opportunistic and irrational) investor behavior - what is not, nowadays?
Plesk Team is not related at all to investment firms or management of investment firms - Plesk Team should not get the full load of disgruntlement.
Plesk users cannot solve the issue by switching back and forth to alternatives - the same issues will occur when using the alternatives.
Plesk users can only solve part of the problem by making distinctions between the various issues and the root causes of those issues - this is not happening!
Plesk users can only solve part of the problem by being unified - this certainly is not happening ........... to my regret.
In my humble opinion, this is "game theory" where parties are working towards a Nash equilibrium that is suboptimal for all parties involved.
Kind regards.....
I fully agree with
but I would like to hint - with all due respect - that the other parts of your post are related to something that we should not give into : polarization.
This whole topic thread has become - more and more - a battle between two camps that cannot convince each other, with polarization as the endresult.
This endresult is not desirable, not at all.
Plesk pricing is highly related to (opportunistic and irrational) investor behavior - what is not, nowadays?
Plesk Team is not related at all to investment firms or management of investment firms - Plesk Team should not get the full load of disgruntlement.
Plesk users cannot solve the issue by switching back and forth to alternatives - the same issues will occur when using the alternatives.
Plesk users can only solve part of the problem by making distinctions between the various issues and the root causes of those issues - this is not happening!
Plesk users can only solve part of the problem by being unified - this certainly is not happening ........... to my regret.
In my humble opinion, this is "game theory" where parties are working towards a Nash equilibrium that is suboptimal for all parties involved.
Kind regards.....
Obsession with this topic? Oh come on, that's disguised condescension. Let me provide you something for an X amount of money and then increase my price toward you every year, and when you complain, I will response with: why the obsession? Ok right?
Azurel
Silver Pleskian
I'm not happy with the current situation either, but I don’t think discussing it here on the forum will really change anything. What I’m really missing is a Lite plan for private users who run their own root server with own small projects. Something that only includes a single admin login to the GUI (without logins for subscriptions), with more than only 30-domains. A single project of mine have over 20 domains. This limit is shite.
That said, Plesk is still a very well-designed system. I like it. However, what really made me start questioning whether I should switch was this topic: Important: Imunify Auto Installation and Possible Data Leak
That whole situation was outrageous, even if it was a mistake, it’s something that should never happen. And the way Plesk downplayed it afterwards really damaged my trust. If private files are being sent to third parties without explicit consent, I can’t feel confident that my data is secure with plesk anymore.
The price increase isn’t great, but in the end, it’s up to them to decide whether that’s sustainable or if other providers will take the opportunity to step in. What I really don’t get, though, is why DirectAdmin keeps being recommended. It’s actually more expensive and feels like a trip back to the 2000s – definitely not what I’d call modern GUI.
Plesk with Hetzner (exists customers before drop plesk) is 13,80 € with DirectAdmin would it be for me 15 €.
It depends very much on who is buying and how many licenses. For private individuals, I think Plesk is the better choice, especially in terms of the user interface and the options available.
That said, Plesk is still a very well-designed system. I like it. However, what really made me start questioning whether I should switch was this topic: Important: Imunify Auto Installation and Possible Data Leak
That whole situation was outrageous, even if it was a mistake, it’s something that should never happen. And the way Plesk downplayed it afterwards really damaged my trust. If private files are being sent to third parties without explicit consent, I can’t feel confident that my data is secure with plesk anymore.
The price increase isn’t great, but in the end, it’s up to them to decide whether that’s sustainable or if other providers will take the opportunity to step in. What I really don’t get, though, is why DirectAdmin keeps being recommended. It’s actually more expensive and feels like a trip back to the 2000s – definitely not what I’d call modern GUI.
Plesk with Hetzner (exists customers before drop plesk) is 13,80 € with DirectAdmin would it be for me 15 €.
It depends very much on who is buying and how many licenses. For private individuals, I think Plesk is the better choice, especially in terms of the user interface and the options available.
The fact is, I won't waste time complaining or predicting the downfall of your product for years; I'll simply find an alternative and stop using that doesn't meet my expectations.
Oh, Mister Superior.
The fact is, you won't complain, but at the same time, you judge and label people who complain "obsessed" because they find themselves in a different position than you.
How nice. Touche Igor.
This place became condescending, and since the Plesk/immunify data upload fiasco, I had my doubts, but in reality, this is all going absurd for some quite time.
That is factually incorrect. You are referring to the Plesk plan on Hetzner that was dropped three years ago and no longer exists. No one can access it except for users who have it and are active. So, an edge case that is not even available commercially anymore.The price increase isn’t great, but in the end, it’s up to them to decide whether that’s sustainable or if other providers will take the opportunity to step in. What I really don’t get, though, is why DirectAdmin keeps being recommended. It’s actually more expensive and feels like a trip back to the 2000s – definitely not what I’d call modern GUI.
Plesk with Hetzner (exists customers before drop plesk) is 13,80 € with DirectAdmin would it be for me 15 €.
It depends very much on who is buying and how many licenses. For private individuals, I think Plesk is the better choice, especially in terms of the user interface and the options available.
Regardless of that and regardless of the features and how you experience them between Plesk and other interfaces, DirectAdmin's price is cheaper than Plesk by every metric. Look at Plesk's prices, look at the domain limits, look at Directadmin and then come here and claim that Directadmin is more expensive.
Don't mislead people.
Thanks.
Hangover2
Regular Pleskian
I think this topic is so emotionally charged because it’s the small and mid-sized companies who chose Plesk as a hosting partner that are now being forced to swallow all these greedy price hikes from the usual “locust” private-equity types.
All the hosts where I rent servers or manage packages for clients generally don’t raise prices—at most they bump domain fees when a registry goes off the rails and arbitrarily jacks prices to maximize profit. Usually, hosting prices stay stable and you gradually get more performance for the same money as new tech comes to market.
The hosting business needs stability—especially on pricing. We simply can’t pass on hefty annual price increases to our customers, or they’ll stop being our customers. Since we typically run small servers and don’t have massive volume, we can’t scale our way out of it either. Sure, we could switch to another panel, but customers don’t like being forced to relearn things. Small hosts like us also end up having to do that migration for free, because our customers will say: “Why did you put us on Plesk in the first place if we now have to pay more every year? Choose your partners more carefully!” The support burden and cleanup work from such a switch is enormous—but what choice do we have? Either we leave everything as is and make nothing on hosting (even cross-subsidizing it)—in which case the only winner is, as always, the locust—or we invest even more resources to migrate customers to a new solution that (at least right now) can’t match Plesk. And the locust knows this perfectly well.
If you’re active in the community—helping others, filing bug reports, pushing the Plesk ecosystem for years—and the “thank you” is getting squeezed like a lemon, well, I can see why people end up with ulcers. Plesk is inflicting massive financial damage on its partners simply because it can. In my view, that’s just antisocial.
In my opinion, Plesk and cPanel should never have been brought under the same roof. Unfortunately, the model “works” because antitrust law often doesn’t catch many small but strategically important firms. And now we’re living with the result.
Many small hosts like us would love to keep using Plesk, but the pricing policy makes it impossible to remain partners. The employees at Plesk aren’t to blame for this. I suspect many of them are frustrated too, watching years of their work get undermined—knowing they could be doing more for partners at a better price—and realizing that all that effort ends up benefiting the locust, while customer trust is gone for good.
All the hosts where I rent servers or manage packages for clients generally don’t raise prices—at most they bump domain fees when a registry goes off the rails and arbitrarily jacks prices to maximize profit. Usually, hosting prices stay stable and you gradually get more performance for the same money as new tech comes to market.
The hosting business needs stability—especially on pricing. We simply can’t pass on hefty annual price increases to our customers, or they’ll stop being our customers. Since we typically run small servers and don’t have massive volume, we can’t scale our way out of it either. Sure, we could switch to another panel, but customers don’t like being forced to relearn things. Small hosts like us also end up having to do that migration for free, because our customers will say: “Why did you put us on Plesk in the first place if we now have to pay more every year? Choose your partners more carefully!” The support burden and cleanup work from such a switch is enormous—but what choice do we have? Either we leave everything as is and make nothing on hosting (even cross-subsidizing it)—in which case the only winner is, as always, the locust—or we invest even more resources to migrate customers to a new solution that (at least right now) can’t match Plesk. And the locust knows this perfectly well.
If you’re active in the community—helping others, filing bug reports, pushing the Plesk ecosystem for years—and the “thank you” is getting squeezed like a lemon, well, I can see why people end up with ulcers. Plesk is inflicting massive financial damage on its partners simply because it can. In my view, that’s just antisocial.
In my opinion, Plesk and cPanel should never have been brought under the same roof. Unfortunately, the model “works” because antitrust law often doesn’t catch many small but strategically important firms. And now we’re living with the result.
Many small hosts like us would love to keep using Plesk, but the pricing policy makes it impossible to remain partners. The employees at Plesk aren’t to blame for this. I suspect many of them are frustrated too, watching years of their work get undermined—knowing they could be doing more for partners at a better price—and realizing that all that effort ends up benefiting the locust, while customer trust is gone for good.
Just wanted to add my concern and anger w/ the constant price increases, as well... I've been w/ Plesk for almost 20 years and am a full time web developer running my own business. I am not big by any measure, but manage a dozen of servers, multiple Plesk licenses and host over 200 websites. I have always defended Plesk with their first round of price increases but it's gotten so frequent and brazen that I have already made the decision to start migrating. Time is money and I will lose money doing this, but I don't care. Out of the ALL of the subscriptions I have, ranging from entertainment, business, the entire spectrum, Plesk has hands down been the worst with the frequency of price increases and the way they communicate it. It is pure greed coupled with WebPros monopoly, lack of quality alternatives, and knowing how hard it is to switch solutions... Just an unfortunate combination that we the consumers have to pay. I will no longer recommend Plesk.
Gary W.
Basic Pleskian
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.
Post some links where you migrated to (panel) and say more about your migration experience, processes, and whatever you think would be good to know. I am interested. I think I have my candidate, but I would love to hear more from other people that actually "done it". You don't have to be specific. I know this time is demanding, just post some general experience. Thank you for your time.
It seems Plesk really doesn’t care about anything anymore, considering that such content is allowed on its official forum...
Oh, here is Igor, a covert transitioner to another panel, while at the same time insisting that alternative solutions for chronic problems (which the company itself caused) be censored and removed.
Basically, you are voting even for the little sense and honor to have it removed. Now we need to be "allowed" to mention a concurrent product.
It’s not comparable technology, but personally, I have been reading the biggest audio forums in the world for the last 20 years. Not a single company— all of which are private entities—censors mentions of other products on their forums.
Go to the Elektronauts forum (x55 more users than here), a Discourse platform run solely by the Elektron company and for their devices. In the last month, the most popular forum threads are precisely about competitors’ devices, AKAI MPC, and Roland. No one thinks about deleting these discussions in an attempt to prevent users from becoming more educated or aware of alternatives. Have you ever heard that competition is a good thing?
Go to the Ableton forum and see how many users there recommend Pro Tools or Cubase, which are competing products.
It is precisely this narrow-minded approach to this problem that you have adopted (you have already exposed your intentions for the second time, having previously described and labelled people worried about price increases as being obsessive) that has led and continues to lead to user attrition.
Do you even understand what you're writing about? What panel did I supposedly switch to, and secretly at that? I still use Plesk even though I haven't worked at the company for a long time. And here I'm speaking as a private individual, not an employee. Or is it only you who’s allowed to express a personal opinion here?
How does it feel to your own method of projecting? Not cool, ha?
Let me start with your method: Do you even understand how to read? I never said you secretly switched to anything. Where show me? You can't. So? Do you know how to read? You are obfuscating and trying to make me post something wrong so that this could be deleted.
I am pointing out the fact that you are supposedly being an objective individual who now works for someone else, and you confirmed to another user here Input - Enormous price increases yet again for 2025, while at the same time you are present here trying to
1. Labeling people as being "obsessive" with this thread because they are trying to rationalize the Plesk cost rise every year. You know, people who have customers in the very same Plesk.
2. insinuating that Plesk moderators should delete any attempt at mentioning of concurrent product. You said yourself that, and you cannot escape it.
So you are trying to marginalize people's frustration with Plesk pricing (and alternatives to that). What would be the motive for such a logical non-obsessed pro like you ha?
What's even more absurd is that you label people in this thread who are upset about this yearly price increase "obsessed" with this thread, yet you, who work on another team, are following it and being active in it. Hence the projection and "covert" thing.
You may be a really nice person in private life, that's possible, but from your online activity in this specific thread, I am seeing here you are pretty unfair when it comes to this specific thread and your position.
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