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Input I see the new inflated 2027 prices have arrived

Tim_Wakeling

Tim_Wakeling

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Quelle surprise.

Got an email today which told me it was to "share an update to Plesk pricing". Unfortunately it didn't contain any prices, but did contain a link to a PDF where the prices were listed (without VAT of course) on page 6.

Paid monthly:
Web Admin goes from £17 to £19 (12% rise)
Web Pro goes from £30 to £34 (13% rise)
Web Host goes from £63 to £74 (17% rise)

Paid annually, the prices go up in the same proportions.

Inflation this year was 3%, so once again these increases bear no relation whatsoever to actual increases in costs.

This is now the seventh consecutive year in which prices have risen by several TIMES inflation.

Are we to expect the exponential curve to hit infinity at some point, Plesk?

Not happy. But waiting to see what we get for Black Friday as temporary "compensation".
 
Came here to say the same but you've beaten me to it, so I'll reply here instead to say that this really is getting absolutely ridiculous now.

Our bill will be going up by another £11 + vat per Plesk install? I'm sure we were paying more around the £25 p/m mark for unlimited domains when we first signed up.

The kick in the teeth for me personally though, is that this jump seems to be mostly because you're working on features to allow AI agents to control Plesk? I don't want this. I don't want any AI features at all, let alone ones that offer a potential backdoor to our servers. If others want such functionality, fine, but why do we all have to pay for it?

We run a number of Plesk servers both as QWeb and for various other UK agencies. I've advocated Plesk for decades, we ask all of our agency clients to buy licenses for the servers that we manage. I can't warrant doing this any more - I can't comfortably tell clients that this price point is warranted.

Plesk needs to return to a more reasonable base price for core features, with the likes of AI functionality as add-ons for those who want to fund that development. Unless this happens, we're going to have to start migrating the servers that we manage.
 
I was already considering to spend multiple days to migrate to another platform, now I'm sure. It's just been a moneygrab for a few years now. Pricing has become outrageous, just because they think people won't leave.
 
QWeb Ric said:
Came here to say the same but you've beaten me to it, so I'll reply here instead to say that this really is getting absolutely ridiculous now.

Our bill will be going up by another £11 + vat per Plesk install? I'm sure we were paying more around the £25 p/m mark for unlimited domains when we first signed up.

The kick in the teeth for me personally though, is that this jump seems to be mostly because you're working on features to allow AI agents to control Plesk? I don't want this. I don't want any AI features at all, let alone ones that offer a potential backdoor to our servers. If others want such functionality, fine, but why do we all have to pay for it?

We run a number of Plesk servers both as QWeb and for various other UK agencies. I've advocated Plesk for decades, we ask all of our agency clients to buy licenses for the servers that we manage. I can't warrant doing this any more - I can't comfortably tell clients that this price point is warranted.

Plesk needs to return to a more reasonable base price for core features, with the likes of AI functionality as add-ons for those who want to fund that development. Unless this happens, we're going to have to start migrating the servers that we manage.
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You aren't imagining it. In 2017 Plesk cost just £216 including VAT per year for the top licence allowing unlimited domains. Now it is more than four times that.

In 2018 they sheepishly emailed to say they were increasing prices by 53% because they'd been static for so long, and to be honest, that was fair enough. They said they wouldn't keep doing it, and for two more years, they didn't, before increasing 10% in 2021. All of this was understandable.

But that's when the trouble started. 2022 brought another 10% rise, then 2023 a further 17%. 2024's hike was 14%. Now the bosses started seeing dollar signs in their eyes, and we got 23% in 2025 and 26% in 2026, before this year at 17% again.

Without the context of the previous years' rises, this year's hike to cover AI integration seems not unreasonable (though an alternative package without it would have been a good idea). But in context we can clearly see that's little more than an excuse to continue a familiar pattern.

Furthermore, the artificial domain limits of 10 and 30 on the lower plans mean that people are forced to pay for advanced server management and reseller features they have no use for, simply because of the number of domains they happen to be hosting. That leaves a very bad taste when the prices are so significant.
 
Hi,

I'm currently looking into Enhance as an alternative. Can you recommend it as a serious alternative to Plesk? Has anyone worked with it yet?
 
@Lucas K. We’re currently evaluating various solutions to become more independent - not just from Plesk, but also from the “successor” in our server farm. Relying on a single ecosystem was a mistake on our part, too, and we’re now gradually correcting it.

The panels we find interesting (depending on our customers’ use cases - not everyone needs the full package) include:

a) Free Hosting Control Panel — Hosting Control Panel

Often more than adequate for managed projects or dedicated servers used for specialized tasks (backups, etc.).

b) DirectAdmin web control panel — DirectAdmin Web Control Panel Home

Currently one of our favorites for migrating customers who were previously in the Plesk ecosystem.

c) ispmanager — Hosting Control Panel by ispmanager

Also very interesting. A Plesk lookalike for servers. Unfortunately, its Russian roots in development and support infrastructure remain very strong, which some customers may consider problematic (risk of sanctions, data leakage, etc.).

d) Free Hestia Control Panel — Hestia Control Panel | Open-source web server control panel.

An open-source web server control panel worth a look.

We have other panels on our watchlist, but so far they haven’t been able to measure up to the ones mentioned above.
 
Lucas K. said:
Hi,

I'm currently looking into Enhance as an alternative. Can you recommend it as a serious alternative to Plesk? Has anyone worked with it yet?
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I am very interested in Enhance too. I would be interested to hear of experiences. I think it doesn't support JetBackup or AlmaLinux so I would have to switch to Ubuntu and a different backup solution. But as I run two VPSes, the fact that Enhance can operate them both in a single control panel under one licence is particularly attractive.
 
This is definitely my last year with Plesk. For now, all my options point to DirectAdmin. The problem is finding hosting companies that offer it on managed VPS plans, since I don't have enough server administration knowledge to manage a server. My current provider, here in Spain, only offers Plesk and cPanel.

Aside from security updates—which there have been far too many of in recent months—Plesk hasn't offered anything new lately (apart from that pathetic card game) that would justify the price increases, which don't even seem to follow global inflation rates. Even petrol prices don't go up that much... Insane.

I wanted to check out Enhance, but its website seems to be dead. I tried CloudPanel.io, but its website is stuck in a redirection loop. ISPmanager seems far too complicated, and my users reject Hestia...

Plesk has the advantage of being user-friendly and having a clean, intuitive interface, but it's simply no longer worth the price.
 
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Fixed your last line:

Sure, Plesk has a beautiful, clean, user-friendly interface. And apparently, WebPros thinks that’s enough justification to bend its customers over every single year and charge them a small fortune for the privilege of clicking a few shiny buttons. At this rate, we'll soon need to take out a second mortgage just to create an email account. But hey, at least the dashboard looks fantastic while our wallets are being systematically emptied. And who knows, maybe next year they'll throw in another groundbreaking card game to justify the next 20% increase. What an absolute bargain! ;-)
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They are doing it with cPanel also. They basically plan on raising prices year after year. We have started advising clients to go with another option. Interworx is another solid choice for Linux servers
 
My current hosting provider has just told me that they’re evaluating other control panel options. They’re one of the hosting providers in Spain with the largest number of Plesk licenses, but they’re seeing customers move to alternative solutions. They’re experiencing the same issue with cPanel as well.
 
It's basically asset stripping, isn't it? Just keep systematically increasing the price, pocket what you can as you go along, and either (a) you will eventually discover that a plurality of customers are willing to pay a lot more than you originally thought - the long term win - or (b) the company fails and you just sell and move on, but you still win because you've made so much money in the meantime.
 
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