Review (March 2024)
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40.2M
Estimated Revenue
1.33M
Website Visitors
2.9/5
Trustpilot Score
What do we know about Plesk?
Estimated Revenue (2020)
$40.2M
Total Employees
210
Founded
2000
Industry
Computer Software
Last Funding Date
Venture (Round not Specified) Jun 2013
Location
Schaffhausen, Switzerland
About
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What is Plesk's Revenue?
Plesk's estimated revenue for 2023 is $40.2M.
What does Plesk do?
Plesk is the leading WebOps platform and control panel to run, automate and grow applications, websites and hosting businesses. We manage and secure 380,000+ servers, automating 11M+ websites and 19M+ mailboxes. We're available in more than 32 languages across 140 countries with 50% of the world's top 100 hosting service providers partnering with Plesk today. Our global team is made up of 200+ tech-loving professionals with offices in the US, Germany, Canada, Switzerland, Spain, Russia, Japan, and Singapore. Plesk boasts an outstanding rate of employee satisfaction and engagement. All Pleskians, whether inside our organization or members of the growing online community, are encouraged to actively chase their personal and career goals. Join the Plesk team today!
What are the monthly traffic metrics for Plesk?
6/mo Traffic Growth
-3.40%
All Time Traffic Growth
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Monthly Hits
1M
Time on Site
2.4Mins
Pages per Visit
3.0
Bounce Rate
66%
How fast is Plesk growing?
Plesk has grown by 9.3% in the last 6 months according to SimilarWeb.
How do people interact with Plesk?
Last month, Plesk received 1M visitors who spent an average of 2.4 minutes on the website and visited 3.0 different pages per session. Overall, 66% of people bounce on the first visit.
How do people find Plesk?
331k people (25%) visit Plesk directly. 901.9k (68%) people search for them in Google. Whereas, 4.1k (0%) discover Plesk through Facebook, Reddit, and YouTube. 3.6k (0%) visitors come from Plesk's email newsletters. Finally, 16.9k (1.3%) people come from affiliates and or paid referrals.
Who uses Plesk?
Plesk's top market is the United States and they receive 123.1k (9.3%) people.Then the 2nd is Germany with 121.2k (9.1%).The 3rd is is India with 93.3k (7.0%).
Traffic Growth (last 6 months)
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Rihards Simanovics
Simply Great Software.
Reviewed on 2021-03-28T02:33:04
I have had a read over some reviews left by people. I always read 1 star first as those usually represent the real experience with the product.I can see that most have issues with the support, and others simply don't like, understand, or have experience working with complex Control Panels (and believe me, Plesk is a simplified version of what I would call complex).
Sure I will agree Plesk is not perfect. It has many rough edges, one of which is where the user is being bound to a single tab use (personal, but I like to use multiple tabs for better multitasking).
If you think that simply installing Plesk and calling it a day will be it, you are making a big mistake, Plesk just like cPanel and other Control Panels expect you to do regular maintenance and ensure you got the correct configuration and knowledge of the software (or at least a basic ability to read Troubleshooting guides and wiki articles).
I remember myself three years ago when I began using Plesk. It wasn't easy but a nice challenge. Articles were useful, and after some reading, the problem was most certainly sitting in the chair and not in the server or the software.
My server has been running for two years since a successful reinstall with all the correct configuration and has not failed me yet. All the sites are working as expected, built-in Firewall and fail2ban blocking malicious attacks. DNS is synced to my little DNS cluster, and all is well, and if all goes to hell, I know that I have a second server somewhere in the EU that will take over my failed one if things get nasty.
In conclusion, if one has issues with a product, one gets educated enough about the product before splattering all over its reputation.
And remember the PEBKAC (1)!
1 (“problem exists between keyboard and chair”)
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MB
A year after my last review... Plesk getting more terrible!!
Reviewed on 2021-03-17T09:47:15
Well I decided to write a new review after a year since my last review from March 2020.Sidenote; my first review back in August 2018 was flagged by Plesk as it was probably to honest about Plesk. Unfortunately Trustpilot fell for this and removed it. Though it was 100% accurate. Apparently HONEST reviews are not allowed on Trustpilot?
So what's new with Plesk? Or better said, what's more of the same. Well everything, if not worse!
I remember 3 years back we were forced by an Plesk employee to use the Plesk product configurations, otherwise we would not receive the Plesk partner discount.
Really? Why enforce this? Isn't it our decision to use these product configurations in general? Apparently not. Plesk decides!
Anyways, after a ton of harsh emails both ways, Plesk finally gave in and we still received the minor discount as advertised. However we wasted so much time on this, that it was not even worth the effort anymore.
Last week, we decided to to make use of the Plesk product configuration, because you are able to block certain products and extensions completely (instead of blocking them in the panel ini file). However this completely broken! There are a ton of duplicate entries in there and therefor you cannot disable them and making configuring product configurations correctly, completely impossible... It will be fixed somewhere later this year (if lucky). Apparently it's not a big issue for Plesk.
Now this brings me to a new point. I found a very big bug/flaw within Plesk licensing (which could be easily abused for free profit) and decided to report this. Maybe even receive some kind of reward as it was a really serious flaw!
Plesk indeed classified the bug/flaw as very serious and resolved it straight away. And ofcourse no reward. So next time I will not report it all anymore (why should we; nothing in for us) and instead will share it on forums perhaps. Let's see what happens then. ;-)
And why can issues like these be fixed asap? While I have to wait for a fix in regards to Plesk product configurations for many months? Seriously?
Plesk support is also going downhill. Support times are getting worse, also it seems that Plesk fired some employees as you always see the same 2 or 3 persons nowadays. In the past it used to be more different people. Probably Plesk is saving on costs by firing staff members? It would not surprise me at all.
Also being a "valued" Plesk Partner is also one complete big joke. Plesk does not care about you, nor it's partners. Plesk sells licenses even more cheaply online to customers than we can offer them. We even get customers like; why should I buy a license from you, while I can get one from Plesk directly and save a few EUR/USD? I can simply order a virtual server and install it myself then.
This reminds of all the garbage which resides in Plesk nowadays; a ton of advertisements and every time we disable it in the panel, or elsewhere, something new comes up. E.g. Kolab advertisements, extensions advertisements, third party SSL advertisements and last year it was some kind of Holiday Christmass offerings.
Really?! Why Plesk? Is you software free to use? No! Do we not pay enough already for all these licenses? Apparently not!
Funny thing in regards to support; last time I had to create a ticket and apparently their "great" support system thought we were using an outdated Plesk/OS version on a server, so we got a stupid bot response (Integrator) about and I quote "This is an automated response letting you know that Plesk Support Team does not provide support for products that reached the end of life."
This was 1000% incorrect. Anyways, that ticket was left for dead. And I had to create yet another ticket to ask about this as the server was;
1. running the latest Plesk version 18.0.33
2. running on latest CentOS 7.x
Apparently Plesk fired so many people, so now they only support what they want and you get a bot response when something is not correctly configured or discovered by their systems. Great...
So now we have to 2 support tickets (with various IP's / license keys) in order to get something answered. Again this was never an issue before, but apparently the investment company behind Plesk is pulling more and more strings and therefor want to increase their revenues.
That also explains all the "cheap" ways to getting more and more money from various garbage advertisements within Plesk. Plesk is already making a lot of money from the Plesk licenses (*) and also a serious money from the extensions you buy directly from them (customers). And there is completely no help on how to set this up for your own company. NO HELP AT ALL!
(*) pricing increased this year (2021) again, even when companies struggle because of Covid-19.
Plesk does NOT care anymore. Plesk is owned by an investment company, who pulls the strings...
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Luis Kreische
So far so goo
Reviewed on 2021-03-11T00:06:36
Just sharing my experience so far, I have been a customer of siteground for many many years,but as most other stupid hostings out there they'll offer you the first year at a reasonable price and the years followed after that they'll continually increase their price.
Long story short my last hosting bill was nearly 300 for a year with siteground for like 2 websites.. so then I came to find out about vultr.com which is where I also discovered plesk and after migrating everything myself I was really happy with the whole experience.
Conclusion is that now I'm paying 60 dollars for a whole year of hosting with vultr.com using plesk and I'm able to have a fair decent amount of traffic and websites before needing to upgrade any cpu or memory.
Sick of hosting companies ripping you off? Go to vultr.com and install plesk. Best thing anyone will ever do.
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Jorge
Danger
Reviewed on 2021-02-21T15:41:00
PLesk has a feature to allegedly manage wordpress installation. This features is called wordpress Tools kit.This feature has modified all the site url of my wordpress installation. I also discovered it changed the name of my administrator accounts. So, in the past, the username was "admin" and it became thinks like Eoour39. So, it means that wordpress tools kit modified entries in my wordpress databases without asking me. Also, in the past, I broke my nginx configuration and discovered that plesk could not repair every configuration file doing plesk repair. Hopefully, I had a backup. The backup manager features few options. I also had problems with an installation. I subscribed to their support service and there were unable to fix it. They said they didn't see any problem while the problems where in the logs. Also, A subscription is necessary for support. I had to subscribe and then cancel my subscription after this unsucessful story. At last, I am among those who moved from Cpanel to Plesk. I regret it.
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Brandon DeWeese
Probably the worst software I've ever…
Reviewed on 2021-02-11T01:41:49
Probably the worst software I've ever had to deal with besides possibly Media Temple,which coincidentally uses plesk. So terrible. Everything about it screams "how the hell does this software actually exist in this terrible form in the year 2021"? It is bad. I mean, really bad.
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Nor.H
Never. Never ever use Plesk
Reviewed on 2020-11-29T23:15:44
First of all,
Why On Earth, would anyone want to deal with someone who doesn't want to communicate with you?
Now.I don't know about you and I don't care, neither. You make your own choices.
I dumped Google (What? Yes, Fugg Google!)
I also dumped Twitter (no wait Jack banned me for talking truth so fugg him) but I dumped Mark Fugger (ops, Zucker, ...same shidd) and many "Other Big Shots" trying to Rule the internet. I don't need this shidd, really
Back to Plesk.
I changed from cPanel to Plesk. Yes. Look, you gotta try, OK, how else would you know?
Fair is fair and I need to say, the poor buggers needing a job and thus, working for this arrogant pack that "Leads" Plesk, are actually quite willing to hep BUT, they need to stick to PLESK policies and one of their policy is "NOT" to communicate with their paying clients.
Oh yeah, they'll fiercely denounce my claim by telling you; Hey, we allow you to use our "Official" support ticketing system to tell us, ...BUT, this official support ticketing system is ONLY AVAILABLE TO YOU, IF, ...you use any of our approved browsers.
Now why would we do this?
Simple: By using an approved browser such as Google Chrome, Safari, Opera, etc, ... you agree with us screwing you. meaning, we can steal your data, use your data, sell your date, in short, fugg with you any way we want.
Should you, however, ever DARE to use a browser that "Protects You", then we will ban you from accessing our official support panel and of course, we do that by using one of the Internet's most reputable 'Fugg you People' security interface like ZEND.
Basically, what we're saying is:
"Agree to being screwed" or - face reality of not being able to talk to us. That's fair, isn't it?
Yes, totally, fu*k you Plesk, and even better; FUGG YOU, PLESK. Take your shidd and swallow it yourself.
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Mark Genney
Wildly unpleasant to use
Reviewed on 2020-11-25T05:10:30
I don't know who all these people are that are saying that Plesk is easy to use. It is plain difficult to use,unintuitive and lumpy. Simple tasks like setting up emails takes forever to guess how it works. The largest files in disk usage viewer are have the possibility to delete them. Obviously that doesn't work for some files. I have had issues with hanging tasks, needless to say there is no task manager where you can just kill them.
The knowledge-base is expansive. It has to be because Plesk sucks so badly that there are literally hundreds of things to go wrong or not understand. However the resolutions are hidden unless you sign in. Signing up for an account to read the help for Plesk requires an email confirmation. Didn't arrive, perhaps they also cannot work out how to set up emails in Plesk. As such I am unable to ready the help pages for software that I have the indignity of paying for.
They get 2 stars instead of one because their support is actually fast and friendly. That's if Ionos can be bothered to escalate questions to them rather than just send back links to the knowledge-base that I am not allowed to read.
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Elias
Problematic, slow, expensive and hard to use
Reviewed on 2020-09-18T12:17:08
This is the worst platform I have ever used. Since moving from cPanel to Plesk, had nothing but problems with memory issues,disks space issue, slowness etc.. I thought it will make my hosting smoother rather it made it more time consuming dealing with every problem I have been facing using plesk. My website became much slower using Plesk....
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