Anyone familiar with Plesk7?

[daverozelle]

I have a client considering moving to a dedicated server that uses Plesk 7 for management or whatever. I am on my way now to educate myself with what the heck Plesk 7 is. Anyone here familiar, happy with, hated it, whatever?

[mfennell]

I also have a dedicated server with Plesk 7. I like it a lot, but I would suggest downloading the manuals and working with the demos before I got a dedicated server with it.

[daverozelle]

How would you rate the newer Plesk 7 against H-Sphere/CPanel?

[mfennell]

its pretty straight forward whereas hsphere can be confusing. Its still new to me (it just came out a couple of weeks ago) and I am still learning it.

I can't really offer a compare/contrast view of these panels at this time, I suggest checking out those demos and seeing if its something you can learn to deal with. No panel has been perfect for everyone yet and I doubt that there ever will be one.

But I can say... Plesk 7 is cleaner looking than any of the others at this point.

Plesk7 is geared mainly at a strict virtual hosting environment only. It is not suited at all as a Reseller control panel. There is no built-in billing system, and the setup can get a little tedious if something goes wrong. It does look very nice, but the underbelly of it is pretty scary if you ask me. Looks great, runs fine, just hope nothing breaks. I guess its not for the power users, but great as a very simple, easy to use control panel.

I do like the fact that it uses MySQL as the DB backend

But give me HSphere anyday. MUCH more control there.

[mfennell]

Having no built in billing system is a plus for me, The hsphere one billing is really screwy imo.

I do like the fact that it uses MySQL as the DB backend

I would have to agree. It helps give the extra flexability that I don't have with hsphere, but then again I have only been a reseller using hsphere, never on the admin side of it. So I don't know what can be done on that side.

[daverozelle]

Originally Posted by Bladesnitz

Plesk7 is geared mainly at a strict virtual hosting environment only. It is not suited at all as a Reseller control panel. There is no built-in billing system

So you mean that this control panel in your opinion is made for a person who is colo'ing their own domains and not setting up a business where the domains are customers.

So its kind of a two level (host/admin -> end user/webmaster) control panel whereas H-Sphere is more three levels (host/admin -> reseller -> end user/webmaster)?

That makes sense to me. So Plesk is something I might use if it was just for my stuff, but not if I wanted to setup a dedicated server that I planned to reseller to resellers, right?

I am so glad I am not really trying to do this, it sounds like too much work.

At this point I would like to thank Vortech for all their wonderful work in making my work so much less.