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mailru66
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Can you please clarify if server with Plesk control panel installed must have access to the Internet and/or any specific port open to communicate with SWSoft server to verify license key or for any other reasons?
I'm asking this question because looking through different forums I've come across the next posting:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=429867
"...my license key suddenly expired .... Since a well secured server is hardened to a point where all unnecessary ports are closed off, there's no way an admin would know that the copy of Plesk in your server would open a mysterious port to communicate with SWSoft servers once in a full moon to automatically renew a key by itself. Thus...you are locked out of your own server and have clients all asking what happened to the control panel. It sure made me look real bad in front of the clients. "
VB
I'm asking this question because looking through different forums I've come across the next posting:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=429867
"...my license key suddenly expired .... Since a well secured server is hardened to a point where all unnecessary ports are closed off, there's no way an admin would know that the copy of Plesk in your server would open a mysterious port to communicate with SWSoft servers once in a full moon to automatically renew a key by itself. Thus...you are locked out of your own server and have clients all asking what happened to the control panel. It sure made me look real bad in front of the clients. "
VB