Thread: plesk lisence

Yes, directly from sw-soft .

Do you mean "lease" licenses, or "less" licenses? If "less", less than what? If lease, you can buy them via http://www.swsoft.com/en/buyonline/plesk75reloaded/ (for Linux). Alternatively, any SWsoft partner will be able to lease them to you for a much lower monthly fee assuming you are buying hosting services from them (it's a violation of the agreement if they lease to you and you aren't using their hosting services).

Do you mean a license for 10 domains, or a license for 10 servers? If 10 domains you're correct in thinking you need 30 (not 25) as a minimum to lease. Many providers can setup Plesk VPS's for you at very favourable rates. Many SWsoft partners will get the licensing for Plesk for next to nothing on the Virtuozzo platform. If you're using something such as Xen or UML pricing may be higher.

I think you'll find Webmin's more useful for people who are used to Linux, it helps automate a few administrative tasks but you still need to have an idea what you're doing. Plesk is more of a lower level letting you concentrate on your business rather than working out how the core of Linux works. Of course, if you don't go with a fully-managed server/VPS you'll still need to know how to manage the server though.

Virtuozzo is complicated to a certain extent. VNS is researching many control panels with Virtuozzo at the moment which sadly is not yet available for RHE / Centos 4.x

It may seem complicated but once you get used to it it's very easy to get along with. Plesk/cpanel/directadmin all work fine on Virtuozzo. RHEL4 is coming with Virtuozzo 2.7 when they move to the 2.6 kernel.

Virtuozzo is incredibly friendly to newbies in my opinion... requires very little 'tweaking' to get things running out of the box. Compare that to trying to build a commercially viable custom system with UML...

cPanel can be a little finicky to get going using the automated installer but once you've got one flawless install you can simply duplicate it for others saving a whole heap of time. Directadmin seems to run right out of the box at least on the CentOS template, as does Plesk.