Anyone here use Plesk for their hosting control panel? I switched from cPanel/WHM back in July because I was tired of being unable to properly test SMF on semi-recent versions of PostgreSQL (centOS uses whatever old version the folks at Redhat decide to support, even if it's not one currently supported by Postgres themselves - one of the annoying things about "enterprise" Linux).

Plesk supports a wide range of distros, so I moved to a new VPS (same host) with Ubuntu Sever 18.04 LTS. I've actually come to like Plesk a lot more than cPanel/WHM - it's a lot more flexible (tons of extensions available) and you don't have two different panels - everything goes through one place and what you see depends on what level of access the logged in user has.

Always used cpanel myself, and a few of the free panels I have tested. I do like to use webuzo for some stuff on a VPS, but it is only a single user panel, but you can have multiple  domains on it.

I have never used Plesk. I have used a few custom control panels that some places used to use but that was a long time ago. Webmin I think was one. Mostly WHM/Cpanel.

I'd never used Plesk before I switched over in July. It took a little bit to get used to it, but it's pretty user friendly and more powerful than cPanel/WHM in my opinion.

More power is always good.

I've never tried it either but was hope to one day...

Quote from: Oldiesmann on Apr 07, 2019, 08:06 PMI'd never used Plesk before I switched over in July. It took a little bit to get used to it, but it's pretty user friendly and more powerful than cPanel/WHM in my opinion.

I've bit the bullet and have installed Plesk on a VPS about 2 months ago. Been plagued with problems, mostly from using the KernelCare extension and not properly setting up the main domain's account. I didn't have a lot of time to really play with it but think I've got things under control...for the moment.

I think I've just got to get used to it as it is very different from cPanel. I am hoping to start offering it as an alternative to cPanel for my customers.

Quote from: Bigguy on Apr 07, 2019, 08:56 PMMore power is always good.

LOL, I don't know if it has more power or not just yet. But I did manage to fix a number of issues, finally!

Now maybe I can start trying to install a forum or blog on it...

Got WP installed on it although it was an automated process. Here's the main site and the WP site:

https://mytesttoo.com/ - nothing on this one yet...

https://mytesttoo.com/wordpress/

Now that I see sites will show I'll try to install a SMF site on it manually. I did have to install PHP 7.2 since it only came with 7.3 and 7.4, by default. Not sure if smf will work with 7.3 or not on Plesk yet.

You've gone all out on that wordpress theme         

LOL, that's their latest default one...

Quote from: Skhilled on Aug 01, 2020, 08:52 AMGot WP installed on it although it was an automated process. Here's the main site and the WP site:

https://mytesttoo.com/ - nothing on this one yet...

https://mytesttoo.com/wordpress/

Now that I see sites will show I'll try to install a SMF site on it manually. I did have to install PHP 7.2 since it only came with 7.3 and 7.4, by default. Not sure if smf will work with 7.3 or not on Plesk yet.

Yes it will work with 7.3 and even 7.4 (though as I recall there are a few minor issues with 7.4).

Just transferred all my sites from one Plesk server to another in order to upgrade from Ubuntu 18 to Ubuntu 20. Went pretty smoothly but am still having issues accessing most of the sites on some connections (possibly because I forgot to properly set up reverse DNS when I set up the new server). Only problem is the database from my PostgreSQL test board didn't transfer because it wasn't able to create the user ("Cannot decrypt password to plain"), but I can just recreate that.

I also had trouble installing Softaculous since there's no separate internal version of PHP (so no /usr/bin/php), but that was easy to resolve - I just symlinked the PHP 7.4 binary.

I didn't try to install Softaculous. However, my biggest problem was getting software (Debian and Plesk) to upgrade properly. I would receive daily emails about it and even when I would try to manually install anything it didn't seem to work. It would say it worked in SSH but not in the Plesk admin. After two Plesk auto-upgrades finally worked properly and a little file editing did it seem to fix the problem. I'm still waiting to see if there are or will be more problems...

At least you didn't spend the better part of two days trying to figure out why you couldn't access most of the sites you just transferred to a new server (it was due to DNSSEC mismatches - I had to re-sign the domains when I transferred servers but never updated the signatures at the registrar so the info didn't match and the domains didn't resolve because of that; the one domain that was working wasn't signed)