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Question Massive price increase for reseller licenses?
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@mow,
It is a trade-off.
The trade-off between "quick fix and preventing costs as a result of issues or bugs" or "being confronted with costs, while waiting until issues or bugs are fixed".
I do agree that Plesk customers should not be confronted with that trade-off ...... it is essentially a thingy for Plesk and Plesk Team.
On the other hand, I have this simple philosophy in life : if it is a small effort, then why not do it?
I can imagine and really understand that other people have a different philosophy or point of view, certainly when confronted with a combination of (1) paid-for Plesk licenses and (2) prices increases of those licenses and (3) issues and bugs beyond a certain threshold that could be deemed as "acceptable".
Kind regards....
HHawk
Regular Pleskian
I feel a new price hike coming up for next year...
Bookmark this future link already: https://www.plesk.com/plesk-price-adjustment-2024-2025-online-customers/
Bookmark this future link already: https://www.plesk.com/plesk-price-adjustment-2024-2025-online-customers/
DamienOrtega
New Pleskian
Understandably, you'd feel frustrated about such a sudden change, especially when it significantly affects your budget. Have you had a chance to reach out directly to the Plesk team about this? They might be able to shed some light on the reasons behind the price hike and whether any alternative solutions or discounts are available. Exploring open-source alternatives could be a good idea if the new pricing doesn't align with your needs or budget. There are some excellent options out there that might offer what you're looking for without breaking the bank.
HHawk
Regular Pleskian
Alejandro Oro Vojacek
Basic Pleskian
I am soooo glad that I am currently "moving" out of plesk my last server. I hope to never touch this piece of software ever again.
what they are doing is beyond awful and completely unjustified.
I'm so happy that I am going to leave this forever since next month. I've imagined they will keep doing it and started moving everything away from them. I'm glad that my suspicions were all correct and that I acted upon it in due time.
what they are doing is beyond awful and completely unjustified.
I'm so happy that I am going to leave this forever since next month. I've imagined they will keep doing it and started moving everything away from them. I'm glad that my suspicions were all correct and that I acted upon it in due time.
HHawk
Regular Pleskian
Same here friend! We have migrated a ton of servers to other solutions. We also lost a few customers, but we gained a lot by avoiding to pay for extreme Plesk price increases (= greed). I think we have about 30 or 40 Plesk servers active at this moment. I think 20 of them do not mind to keep paying extra each year. So we will be keeping those.
I already migrated my own (personal) servers as well to something else. I am not going to pay these absurd prices. It's getting ridiculous! And for what?! Ah yes, Wordpress junk, Plesk support, the terrible new interface looks (yuck) and so on... My own (personal) servers are not hosting any Wordpress website so that's useless for me. I never ever used Plesk support for any of my servers. And so on... Why pay for the price increase every year? I am using a better solution. And the websites/email accounts I was running on my personal Plesk servers are running perfectly on the new solution. Seems also to be a bit faster as well!
Let's wait for: https://www.plesk.com/plesk-price-adjustment-2025-2026-online-customers/
There are several alternatives out there, such as:
- cloudpanel.io (free to use)
- vestacp.com (open source)
- hestiacp.com (open source)
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Thank you. I am unsure what you mean under "support that Plesk offers" - I never needed any support from their support team. If you mean "support" as in support for 3rd party addons - that's one of the reasons I am considering moving away. Over the years Plesk became bloated with supporting many ideas which I never thought or asked. Trying to be all plus price unjustified price increase every year like a pattern and template - resulting in bye-bye.
I’m referring to the direct support from the Plesk Support team. When you’re dealing with critical issues—like fixing a server in the middle of the night while your customers are depending on you—that kind of dedicated support can be a lifesaver. You won’t get that level of assistance with an open-source panel.
That said, if you don’t need this kind of support and you feel that Plesk has become too bloated for your needs, then it might be worth exploring other options that are a better fit for your specific requirements. Everyone’s situation is different, and it’s important to choose the right tool for you.
About the price increase, I wrote this in another thread:
talk.plesk.com
That said, if you don’t need this kind of support and you feel that Plesk has become too bloated for your needs, then it might be worth exploring other options that are a better fit for your specific requirements. Everyone’s situation is different, and it’s important to choose the right tool for you.
About the price increase, I wrote this in another thread:
Input - Enormous price increases yet again for 2025
This seems to have become a recurring theme, and it is not a good one. Plesk has started seriously pressing into price gouging, and I can only imagine it's because switching Web server panels is such a non-trivial thing to do, and they calculate that most people will simply pay up. Today Plesk...
talk.plesk.com
Thanks. I can think of having such support as a good thing. However, I am a bit baffled. I am in no way a Plesk or server expert. That being said I never had any problem with any of my servers and I host 40 companies across several Plesk instances. They run static websites, mail servers, WordPress, Woocommerce, etc., etc. I mean my point is that if you set up things correctly there's little to no issue. I can't remember any issue at all.I’m referring to the direct support from the Plesk Support team. When you’re dealing with critical issues—like fixing a server in the middle of the night while your customers are depending on you—that kind of dedicated support can be a lifesaver. You won’t get that level of assistance with an open-source panel.
That said, if you don’t need this kind of support and you feel that Plesk has become too bloated for your needs, then it might be worth exploring other options that are a better fit for your specific requirements. Everyone’s situation is different, and it’s important to choose the right tool for you.
About the price increase, I wrote this in another thread:
Input - Enormous price increases yet again for 2025
This seems to have become a recurring theme, and it is not a good one. Plesk has started seriously pressing into price gouging, and I can only imagine it's because switching Web server panels is such a non-trivial thing to do, and they calculate that most people will simply pay up. Today Plesk...
I guess the sum of my story is that if you have a problem on your server in the middle of the night then this is your fault, not your admin panel's fault. In such a situation, I wouldn't rely on Plesk or anyone else's support, I would dig and learn what went wrong and solve the problem at the root (pun intended). I am the type of person that wants to understand everything. So yes even though Plesk is sort of "autopilot" for me, I never get things to fly on their own and I dig and understand them.,
That also brings me to the next conclusion.
The fact that I have little or no problems at all - ever - also probably can be attributed to a Plesk as a managing system which sometimes is worth considering and paying for if you are unwilling to learn.
I am on the other side as you can see. I want to understand what I am doing thus all these Plesk super duper automated fancy features are a chore to me. I don't need them. Someone else might. But as a self-proclaimed armchair dev and sys admin with several degrees in YouTube enrollment (huge joke attempt), I don't need this.
All I need is consistent software at a fair price. So Plesk adding features and gimmicks of no use to me and them using that as a justification for price increase every year - no. I am going to learn new things and migrate.
Alejandro Oro Vojacek
Basic Pleskian
There are a lot of super consistent and stable solutions that work as good (if not better) than Plesk and doesn't cost an arm an a leg.
Do you mind telling us which ones?
Alejandro Oro Vojacek
Basic Pleskian
I've migrated over to Webuzo, the same guys behind Softaculous WordPress Manager. Licenses are much cheaper and fair. I get to install the whole system with Open Lite Speed (We were asking for Open Lite Speed in Plesk for years, and they never cared to implement it, being so similar to Apache it should not be a problem), no need to mess with Apache + Nginx, I get better performance and an actual Modsecurity that WORKS.
I'm super happy with it, it's much lighter than Plesk and more stable. The WordPress Manager has some quirkies but I can manage, the team is also great.
I'm super happy with it, it's much lighter than Plesk and more stable. The WordPress Manager has some quirkies but I can manage, the team is also great.
It really depends (I hate that response but it is true). If you have a lot of WordPress users on a server and high traffic to them, and they all use Elementor, WPBakery, or Divi (all of which are atrocities in my view especially when compared to Bricks builder), and if you are not familiar with Nginx then the LiteSpeed might be good for your case because it can achieve nice performance with almost no effort, assuming that your users or you install LiteSpeed cache plugin in their WordPress.
If you are familiar with Nginx I don't think you need LiteSpeed because other server caching tools could produce similar results.
But somehow I feel this is an entirely different topic.
Until today I never heard of Webuzo or Hestia. Some nice alternatives to look at. Someone sent me a PM on another forum about CWP control. It might be I have been living under the rock.
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