Question Plesk Web Pro with +133% price increase?

[Gary W.]

I'm here because in 2021 I paid 165 € for a 2 years Plesk Web Pro license (using OpenProvider). Now I'm asked to pay 385 € for 2 years license?
Plesk is going crazy? Guys do you have some suggestions to buy it cheaper or migrate to honest priced products to manage my server?

Honestly I don't have that much money to run my server. 165 € x2 years was high anyway, but this time they're really exaggerating.

Many thanks.

 

[Peter Debik]

No.

As already posted in my reply to your other comment in Question - Ridiculous price increase there has not been such a steep price increase.

Plesk had moderately increased prices to match inflation. Please let us know whether you have purchased your licences from a reseller, because there are some resellers out there who took their chances to raise prices to an excessively high level that you experience. But it is surely not Plesk that did it.

 

[JohnBee]

With so many free webhosting managers out there now, is makes no sense for individual or self-hosting users to subject themselves to the costs of Plesk.

 

[mmgroup]

I've been a customer since Plesk's early days, originally attracted by its mission to simplify server management. However, I've noticed a shift towards a subscription model with pricing that seems quite high, especially considering most users primarily engage with the panel only during initial setup.

I understand the need for a subscription model, but I believe the current pricing could be more aligned with the actual value and usage provided to users. A more balanced approach might better serve and retain long-term customers like myself.

 

[mmgroup]

We are currently exploring alternatives, including Webuzo, which seems promising. After a 20-year partnership with Plesk, it might be time for us to consider a change.

 

[HHawk]

@bootted hoe much are you going to pay now? After the new announced price increase for 2025? It wil be even more for you now. Probably around 560.00 Euro probably? Or even more.

...or did you leave this sinking ship already?

 

[JohnBee]

@bootted hoe much are you going to pay now? After the new announced price increase for 2025? It wil be even more for you now. Probably around 560.00 Euro probably? Or even more.

...or did you leave this sinking ship already?

There are a few options;

Cloudron - (not a Web Hosting Control Panel per-say, but well worth mentioning, very good for email solution)
CloudPanel - very reliable, lightweight, no email
HestiaCP - highly capable, solid reputation, UI /methodology may take a bit of getting used-to

Enhance Control Panel - very ambitious project, most likely to become a Plesk competitor

PS, still using Plesk, though will likely switch to CloudPanel /Cloudron entirely next renewal, if I needed more, I'd likely go with Enhance

 

[HHawk]

There are a few options;

Cloudron - (not a Web Hosting Control Panel per-say, but well worth mentioning, very good for email solution)
CloudPanel - very reliable, lightweight, no email
HestiaCP - highly capable, solid reputation, UI /methodology may take a bit of getting used-to

Enhance Control Panel - very ambitious project, most likely to become a Plesk competitor

PS, still using Plesk, though will likely switch to CloudPanel /Cloudron entirely next renewal, if I needed more, I'd likely go with Enhance

Thank you. We had a few meeting the past few months and even contacted our 8 biggest customers (who have several Plesk servers with us) and informed them that Plesk will be increasing the prices yet again for 2025. And this time the increase is very huge.

Each of all these 8 customers have between 10 and 20 Plesk Web Host Edition licenses. So you are roughly talking about 80 trough 160 Web Host Edition licenses. So they are all going to pay over 50% increase per month/year over their current pricing. They were completely and utterly shocked! Even one customer who stated beforehand and I quote "I will pay the annual increase, no matter what..." was shocked and he came back on his own words. Haha.

Yes, Plesk really outdid them this time. Ah well... They will see this in a year or two, when the license count goes down badly and have to fire people or ditch the brand Plesk, cPanel, SolusVM, etc. all together. Where one falls, others will rise!

 

[Gary W.]

There are a few options;

Cloudron - (not a Web Hosting Control Panel per-say, but well worth mentioning, very good for email solution)
CloudPanel - very reliable, lightweight, no email
HestiaCP - highly capable, solid reputation, UI /methodology may take a bit of getting used-to

Enhance Control Panel - very ambitious project, most likely to become a Plesk competitor

PS, still using Plesk, though will likely switch to CloudPanel /Cloudron entirely next renewal, if I needed more, I'd likely go with Enhance

Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately, migrations require a lot of time and bug fixing. I've done several migrations from Plesk to Plesk servers, and even within the same platform, many issues came up that needed to be fixed. It'll be worst switching to a completely different control panel.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big fan of free solutions, but in this case, I risk facing downtime with projects that are currently generating revenue.

That said, the best system I've found so far is Webmin. I'm seriously considering making the switch, but again, the implications in terms of bug fixing are making me think very carefully about which path to take.