Plesk is commercial web hosting and server data center automation software developed for Linux and Windows-based retail hosting service providers.
It was developed by Plesk International GmbH, a company with headquarters in Toronto, Canada, and Schaffhausen, Switzerland, with offices in Barcelona, Spain, Cologne, Germany, Tokyo, Japan, and in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, Russia, where it was created in 2000 by Dimitri Simonenko.
The hosting automation software was initially released by Plesk Inc. and first went live in 2001. In 2003, Plesk was sold to SWSoft, which became Parallels in 2008.SWsoft Parallels does Virtuozzo Containers 4.0 thing - Hypervisors are for the weak - Posted in Servers, 30 January 2008 20:59 GMT(By Austin Modine) The Register - Date: 11 December 2007 Author: Paul Mah (TechRepublic.com) In March 2015, Parallels renamed the service provider division to Odin. In December of the same year, Plesk became a separate business entity. In 2017, British Oakley Capital Limited acquired Plesk and it has since been a part of WebPros, a global SaaS platform for server management. Currently, WebPros comprises Plesk, cPanel, WHMCS, XOVI, and SolusVM.
Licenses Plesk, with latest version Obsidian 18.x, is available in the following license configurations:
Plesk Web Admin Edition: 10 domains. Plesk Web Pro Edition: 30 domains. It also includes Plesk WordPress Toolkit full-featured. Plesk Web Host Edition: Unlimited domains. The administrator can also create additional reseller accounts.
The license price also distinguishes whether a license can be used for a dedicated server or a virtualized server. Licenses for dedicated servers are usually slightly more expensive.
Criticisms One criticism of Plesk is that the recommended method of removing it is a complete reinstall of the OS after backing up, which complicates the concept of trialware by binding an administrator to the product by facing considerable downtime of a server.
Version history Product Released Extended Support End of Life Plesk Obsidian; (Free Trial) Current: every 1.5 months; Initial: release 4 June 2019; Two the latest releases are supported Plesk Onyx 11 October 2016 11 October 2020 20 April 2021 Plesk 12 16 June 2014 16 June 2018 1 January 2019 Plesk 11 13 June 2012 13 June 2016 13 December 2016 Plesk 10 3 November 2010 31 January 2015 3 May 2015 Plesk 9 9 December 2008 9 December 2012 9 June 2013 Plesk 8 20 September 2006 1 March 2012 September 2012 Small Business Panel November 2009 1 August 2011 July 2012 Plesk 7 and earlier 10 February 2004 1 January 2012
Timeline
Date Milestone 1999 Release on Linux 2003 Release on Windows Acquired by SWsoft 2007 Merged with Parallels 2009 Focus towards Parallels automation away from Plesk going forward Plesk moved into Maintenance mode 2014 Launch of Plesk 12 2014 Launch of Plesk extensions catalog 2015 Renaming of service provider business to ODIN Acquisition of Odin Automation by Ingram Micro 2016 Relaunch of Plesk as a separate business unit in January 2016 Launch of Plesk Onyx 2017 Launch of WordPress Toolkit 2.0 Launch of WordPress Business Server Acquisition of XOVI 2018 Launch of SEO Toolkit and Joomla! Toolkit Launch of Smart Updates Acquisition of SolusVM 2019 Launch of Plesk Obsidian Launch of My Plesk portal 2020 Launch of SolusIO
See also cPanel Web hosting control panel Comparison of web hosting control panels
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