Plesk seems to be very popular for hosting flexibility, including setting up reseller accounts and such.

But what does the end-user see? Is it that rather forbidding techie interface? CPanel is pretty friendly and lets you design skins. Any place I could see an example of a Plesk control panel?

Well a good place to start would be Plesk.com ;)

http://www.plesk.com/html/products/psa/demo.htm

PLESK, may not be as "beautiful" as CPanel but is very powerful, both on client side and admin side.

Originally posted by iamdave
PLESK, may not be as "beautiful" as CPanel but is very powerful, both on client side and admin side. That's my concern. A technically minded person wants power, but most people want "easy" and "pretty."

I like the manual transmissions on my cars, but it's hard to buy a new car in the U.S. with one because people prefer the "easy" of automatic.

At the bottom of the PLESK CP, your users can click the "Help" button which will tell them what each of the buttons do etc.

Originally posted by rapidtransit
That's my concern. A technically minded person wants power, but most people want "easy" and "pretty."

I like the manual transmissions on my cars, but it's hard to buy a new car in the U.S. with one because people prefer the "easy" of automatic. Ummh, PLESK is very easy to use, once you get used to it. I don't think you're going to be selling space to people who can't figure out how to use a control panel.

Originally posted by iamdave
I don't think you're going to be selling space to people who can't figure out how to use a control panel.

Hehe, when I read the topic I was about to say EXACTLY that :rolleyes:

Originally posted by iamdave
I don't think you're going to be selling space to people who can't figure out how to use a control panel. [/B]
Response 1: No, I only sell $7.95 sites to major corporations with staffs of Novell CNEs.
Respone 2: No, all my clients are required to sign affadavits that their VCRs don't blink "12:00" "12:00" "12:00"
Response 3:: WE DON"T NEED NO STEENKING GUI!!!!!!!!
Response 4: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Plesk seems to be very popular for hosting flexibility, including setting up reseller accounts and such.

But what does the end-user see? Is it that rather forbidding techie interface? CPanel is pretty friendly and lets you design skins. Any place I could see an example of a Plesk control panel? We used CPanel and Plesk. And somehow, many of our customers prefer Plesk rather than CPanel (and this is not saying that CPanel is bad or anything, because I've seen and used CPanel before and it is a wonderful product).

When I asked them why they prefered Plesk, one of them told me that Plesk was more professional in looks and was easier to navigate than CPanel. The other said that it looks better (he's a power user and a straight forward guy) and not too much buttons. Some raved about the user friendly GUI. But again, these are just my customers comments and not everyone's opinions, because CPanel is one of the favorite flavors in this forum.

As far as security and stability, my best experience is Plesk. It is also a fast control panel.

One thing to remember is that most customers don't use control panel everyday. Usually, they use it only when they want to add/delete/manage their email accounts, create user, manage database, etc. But once they're done, they wouldn't even look back.

Plesk also has a special features for reseller. You can allocate your resources for your reseller very easily as well. Another thing that we like about Plesk is the pricing. It's a one time fee for license, and you'll get a free bug fix (if any).

Rey,

Thanks for the rundown. I'm leaning toward Plesk 30-user, since it seems like there is no penalty for upgrade later.

I like the way you explain bandwidth/transfer to your clients.