Want to use plesk, but have a lot of questions..

[lommedalskongen]

We are a norwegian company who is starting up an ISP business , and we desperately need a system like plesk, and therefore I have a lot of questions.
We are using 1 dell poweredge server, so evertyhing will be on one server for the moment.

1. We have found out that version 3.5 of CentOS in OK for running plesk. (with fix in /etc/redhat-release to version 3.3 this is documented here somwhere on the forum.

2. Is Plesk the system we need?.. does it have all the things we need to manage our customers? We are going to host websides, using mambo cms, and therefore we need plesk to roll out new installations, patches. mailadministration/configuration and dns/registrar configuration.

3. Is there any difference in functionality on Plesk, 7 and plesk 7.5 reloaded?

4. the day we are getting bigger and need a new server, anyone here who has moved an instance of plesk from one server to another? This will be an issue

5. for how long will CentOS 3.5 be supported by sw-soft??...

6. virtual server inst of plesk versus having plesk on the same server as out customers??..

As you can se , we have a lot of questions regarding config of plesk and OS version. We are very interested in getting started asap, please advice.

regards
Anders

 

[jamesyeeoc]

Originally posted by lommedalskongen
We are a norwegian company who is starting up an ISP business , and we desperately need a system like plesk, and therefore I have a lot of questions.
We are using 1 dell poweredge server, so evertyhing will be on one server for the moment.

1. We have found out that version 3.5 of CentOS in OK for running plesk. (with fix in /etc/redhat-release to version 3.3 this is documented here somwhere on the forum.

Plesk 7.5.4 supports CentOS3.3 (which is basically the same as 3.5 as you know)

2. Is Plesk the system we need?.. does it have all the things we need to manage our customers? We are going to host websides, using mambo cms, and therefore we need plesk to roll out new installations, patches. mailadministration/configuration and dns/registrar configuration.

Websites: Yes, Mambo: Yes, Plesk AutoUpdater for Plesk CP: Yes, Mail Admin/config: Yes, DNS zone config: Yes
You should read the posts in the forums here, and read the documentation at the Plesk site. Then compare to competitors and make a valid business decision. You are the one who knows all the details of your business. Anyone can say 'Yes, it is great and wonderful' but it may not be quite right for your exact expectations.


3. Is there any difference in functionality on Plesk, 7 and plesk 7.5 reloaded?

Yes, there have been new features added when comparing 7.0.x to 7.1.x to 7.5.x It is best to read the docs on the Plesk site. Too much to gather and post here. Over the months, there have been forum posts which show the changelog for the different versions as well.

4. the day we are getting bigger and need a new server, anyone here who has moved an instance of plesk from one server to another? This will be an issue

The newer 7.5 versions have a Migration Manager for this purpose. There have been many posts about this feature and it's good and bad points.

5. for how long will CentOS 3.5 be supported by sw-soft??...

Only SWSoft could begin to guess at that. They have supported RH9 for many many years, and until the end of this year. So we can hope they will support Centos 3.x and 4.x for many years to come

6. virtual server inst of plesk versus having plesk on the same server as out customers??..

I don't understand question 6

As you can se , we have a lot of questions regarding config of plesk and OS version. We are very interested in getting started asap, please advice.

The best advice is to first read the admin documentation at:
http://www.sw-soft.com/en/products/plesk75reloaded/docs/

and read or search through the forum posts to 'get a feel' for the product and the issues you may encounter.

Sorry if my answers are not really too informative, but it is much better to ask more specific questions about particular problems or how-to type questions.

regards
Anders [/B]