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Plesk available editions and difference between them

 
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What are Plesk editions and the difference between them?

Answer

Starting with Plesk 12.x licenses are shipped in four editions optimized for specific needs:

  • Plesk Web Admin Edition for Web Admins, who manage sites for an employer, a business, or for themselves. They want simple website and domain management without all of the service provider overhead, like management of customers, resellers or subscriptions.

  • Plesk Web Pro Edition for Web Professionals, who design, develop, and deploy their websites. They want a simple way to manage their customers' websites, including their growing use of WordPress as a CMS platform.

  • Plesk Web Host Edition for "Traditional" Web Hosters, who allow their customers to use their shared account in almost any configuration they want. They want secure WordPress and domain management tools to support their multi-tenant, "install anything" customers.

Each edition has features that are in demand by a particular group and is defined by license key. Please refer to the article How to upgrade or downgrade a license between Plesk editions for information about available upgrades between Plesk editions.

Note: Web Admin Edition enables 'Power User' view only. Licenses for Web Pro Edition and Web Host Edition enable both 'Power User' and 'Service Provider' views.

FEATURES WEB ADMIN WEB PRO WEB HOST
Domains and Use Case Up to 10 domains Up to 30 domains Unlimited domains
Service Provider Management
Reseller management no no yes
Subscription management no yes yes
Account management no yes yes
User Interface Description
Power User view (server + site admin) yes yes yes
Service provider view & custom view management no yes yes
User Features
MSSQL and PostgreSQL no yes yes
WP Toolkit

SE Only (Limited features)

yes yes
Cgroups Manager not supported yes yes
Plesk mobile manager yes yes yes
Security Features
Security Core with ModSecurity Rules by Atomicorp yes (free version) yes (free version) yes (free version)
DNSSEC no yes yes
Let's Encrypt yes  yes  yes 
Plesk Email Security yes (free version) yes (free version) yes (free version)
Outbound antispam optional optional optional
Email antivirus optional optional optional
Mail and Users
Number of Mailboxes Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
User Accounts Unlimited Unlimited  Unlimited
Domain Aliases Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
Mail Accounts Unlimited Unlimited  Unlimited
Web Users Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
 

 

  • VPS - fits different virtualization platforms: Virtuozzo (Virtual Private Server (VPS) Containers and VMs), VMware, Xen, Hyper-V, OpenVZ. See the full list of supported virtualization solutions in Plesk Obsidian Release Notes.License types are based on the operating environment in which Plesk will be running: 
  • Dedicated - can be installed on either a VPS or on a dedicated server.

Since Plesk 12, there are no longer any "Plesk for Windows" and "Plesk for Linux" licenses. Now, you can install the same license on either a Windows or Linux server.

IMPORTANT:

  • ColdFusion is not supported since Plesk 12.5.
  • ModSecurity is supported in both Plesk for Linux and for Windows. It works as a web server (Apache or IIS) module.
  • DNSSEC is an extension for Plesk Onyx…
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