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  • "The license cost has been increasing, it was $12 per month and now it's reached $16 per month."
  • "The price of Plesk is reasonable compared to the competition and that is why the management went with using Plesk."
  • "We have a 40% discount. The cost is approximately 25 dollars per device per month."
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    Top Answer:The initial setup is straightforward. Everything is structured on Plesk with a library. It is really easy to install.
    Top Answer:We have a 40% discount. The cost is approximately 25 dollars per device per month.
    Top Answer:We have experienced bugs when using the graphical interface. They are small bugs that are fixable but this is an area that could be improved. In a future release, I would like to be able to use GitLab… more »
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    Overview

    Plesk is a user-friendly graphical interface for managing hosting platforms, particularly for Windows-based developers. It is used for hosting websites and emails on the cloud and is popular among system administrators and freelancers. Its most valuable features include the WordPress toolkit for enhanced security, easy plugin updates, and extensions like Imunify for all-in-one security. 

    Plesk has helped organizations manage dedicated hosting for customer government companies with easy SSL setup and access to the file manager. It eliminates the need for support tickets and offers a stable and reliable control panel with good technical documentation.

    Virtualmin is a web hosting control panel, designed to make it easy to manage websites, mailbox users, databases, and web applications. It provides website owner accounts, easily installable web applications, file management, and a comprehensive and easy to use API for integration with billing and support systems. Installing Virtualmin provides a full-featured web hosting stack with web, email, databases, spam and antivirus filtering, analytics, and much more. Virtualmin is the easiest and fastest way to turn a Linux system into a full-featured web hosting system, and it is fully integrated with Webmin.

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    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Comms Service Provider21%
    Media Company11%
    Computer Software Company11%
    Government9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Comms Service Provider16%
    Computer Software Company10%
    Media Company10%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    Company Size
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    Small Business32%
    Midsize Enterprise24%
    Large Enterprise43%
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    Small Business35%
    Midsize Enterprise18%
    Large Enterprise47%

    Plesk is ranked 2nd in Web Hosting Control Panel with 6 reviews while Virtualmin is ranked 5th in Web Hosting Control Panel. Plesk is rated 8.2, while Virtualmin is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Plesk writes "Provides a stable control panel but needs more protection, monitoring, and better scalability". On the other hand, Plesk is most compared with ISPConfig, CentOS CWP, Vestacp, ISPmanager and Ajenti, whereas Virtualmin is most compared with CentOS CWP, cPanel, ISPConfig, Ajenti and Froxlor Server Management Panel.

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