A few words about Plesk

Plesk sucks!

That pretty much sums it up.

Hear! Hear!  Is that the earth moving?  HL and I agree on something LOL

 Cherish this moment

+1

LAMP people... LAMP!

It's not as easy to use as cPanel, but it has its charms.

 RE:

 Yeah?  Name one.

 free?

Plesk is not free, neither is cPanel.

An interface to control PHP handler and settings for individual sites, built-in firewall management...

Not saying its interface still isn't a mess compared to cPanel's.

I have Plesk with a Zarconia dedicated. It does suck overall but it is free. WHM/Cpanel costs substantially more. I would not be able to have a $49 dedicated with CPanel, but I can with Plesk.

It certainly isn't as good as CPanel and it is a mess to move around in but eventually, you can get most tasks handled.

http://www.parallels.com/products/plesk/pricing-licensing/

I foolishly had Plesk added to the dedicated; had to have the dedi pulled and reloaded to remove the mess.  I did not have weeks to learn the mess.  Two of us; not exactly noobs, could not get a simple vHost setup.  I use webmin, phpMyAdmin, and SSH into the server and can do anything I need to do.  I can set up a new vHost on Nginx in a matter of minutes; including writing the config file and restarting Nginx.  Plus, the tools mention are very low on server resources.

The way Plesk handles subdomains is AFU.

 I can do DOS 2.0 (can you?) but have no idea how to SSH and don't have the time to learn those commands either. Having said that, I never said I liked Plesk, I also think it sucks and would rather just have Cpanel and WHM but cannot afford them right now....

Actually, yes, I know DOS.  There are some reference manuals on my shelves and I have written batch files.  What I was trying to say was not that you were lacking in skills; if it came off that way then I apologise.  Before I got the dedi, it had been a long time since I worked at the Unix shell level, even then it was more forced and I was more than happy to be on a workstation with X Windows.  I had to do a lot of reading on the net to get back to a basic level. I have looked at WHM and I hated it as well.  It depends on what you are going to do with the server.  In my case I will never be reselling and so don't really need anything more that what I listed.

Again, please accept my apologies.

I didn't take any offense, just stating how much I really don't know. Although I've probably been around longer than you (lol) I remember writing basic scripts on the fly to play a game called TradeWars 2002. (still play it today, btw. If you do a google search for "Master Blaster, The Evil Commander" you'll probably find a couple photos of me from days past)

I like WHM because I've been using it for years and understand what each of the funny picture icons are for (lol).

Now you'll knoiw where my avatar came from. http://tradewars.fament.com/Cruncher/Master.htm