Plesk "Light"?
Hi Igor,
Thanks, finally, for your reply.
That is indeed bad news. 11.0.9 is unusable, as far as I am concerned (certainly compared to the previous version we were using), and we cannot wait months for 11.5 to become stable, so I'm going to have to consider an alternative. In fact, I think it would actually make sense for us to move all email to the control panel we recently purchased (see above) and find some website-centric control panel just for web hosting. (Client feedback on our email-only control panel has been very positive, with references to it being a vast improvement over Plesk.) Then we can tie them together somehow with a roll-our-own "panel" that deals with administrative stuff (client contact information, expiry dates, etc.) and link to the two separate email and website systems.
Do we really need "new features?" We most certainly need "improvements", but adding more features to the existing bloat is just too much.
Seeing as this is the "suggestions and feedback" thread, I'd like to suggest (earnestly) a "light" version of Plesk for those of us who have a client base that is almost entirely made up of clients who simply want to host one domain with a website and a few email addresses. This means we need DNS, very basic web server options, and the ability to add and remove email accounts. That's it! Most small-business hosting clients can barely configure their email programs (they're plumbers, secretaries and engineers, not IT specialists), never mind take advantage of advanced hosting options, which they don't even know exist.
Then you can add all sorts of reseller features and features that only advanced clients would use to the "non-light" version. We might even use that version too (although, realistically-speaking, I'd put an advanced client on their own VPS), but the overhead of having to manage all of the bloat for 100% of our clientele when the features inside the bloat are only used by maybe 5% of our clientele is just not worth it.
Craig