When will 11.5 be stable?

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Hi there,

Do we have a date by which 11.5 is expected to be "stable" for "late adopter release"? I've read two other posts seemingly related to my question ("Version 11.5.30 release level" and "Plesk 11.5 no longer stable?!") but neither really addresses my question.

Any light you can shed on this?


Craig

 

[craigh]

Is it just too much to expect someone from Parallels to answer this simple question?!

 

[craigh]

I really can't believe that almost a month later, nobody from Parallels has bothered to answer this question!

In my control panel it reads:

Panel version 11.0.9 Update #58, last updated at Aug 23, 2013 07:43 PM

The system is up-to-date; last checked at Sept 18, 2013 03:06 AM

So, once again, please advise when 11.5 will be considered "stable" for "late adopter release".

I'm asking nicely. Please and thank-you.


Craig

 

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Wtf?!

This really is ridiculous that nobody from Parallels will answer this question.

For what it's worth to you, Parallels, I have moved all of our email-only clients to a non-Plesk server (for which we paid several hundred dollars for the control panel, so money is not the issue here) and will shortly be moving all of our Wordpress-only clients to another non-Plesk server, and their emails to the aforementioned email-only server. Not only is this because Plesk has become a horribly huge and bloated behemoth that is all but unusable, but it's because of the lack of customer service in answering simple, simple questions like this.

The balance of the clients will be moved to the 11.0.9 server that we already set up months ago and gave up trying to use because it just made very little sense in the way it works (and we foresaw huge amounts of time wasted on customer support), although the 11.0.9 server will be a pit stop anyway just so that we can shut down the old server that needs to be replaced. However, I'm under a lot of pressure to try out cPanel. After almost two months of this question being ignored, I'm about to cave and make the replacement for the 11.0.9 server a cPanel one.


Craig

 

[IgorG]

In comparison with version 11.0.9, Plesk 11.5 version has implemented a lot of new features and improvements. To make this version stable, we need much more time. We are working on it, but at the moment we can't call version 11.5 as stable.
Therefore, if this status is important to you, use the stable version 11.0.9 for your business.

 

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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

 

[Sergey L]

Hi Craig,

"Light" version of Plesk can be obtained relatively easy - you would need to remove resources (Set to 0) and permissions from a customer which they don't need, so they will result with only basic functions. We even ship "Default Simple" plan as a preset.

We know few other providers targeting very simple audience and they seemed to address their needs with it.

Let us know if you are looking for something else. We are interested in this kind of discussion

 

[IgorG]

​The Plesk Service team is pleased to announce that Plesk 11.5 has entered into the Stable state.