New Plesk Panel 11

As many of you know, we’ve exclusively offered managed hosting services with Parallels Plesk Panel for almost 12 years; starting with our shared hosting services and later with our Managed Cloud VPS, most of our Dedicated Servers and Complex Load-Balanced Hosting services. We find that Plesk helps our customers get the best performance and flexibility from our hosting services. We are very excited about the launch of the all-new Parallels Plesk Panel 11 as it brings some important features we have been eagerly anticipating!

Turbocharged Web Server

The introduction of Nginx allows us to increase the performance of customer websites by utilizing this very high performance web server while reducing both CPU and memory consumption. This means your conversion rates are higher as your websites load even faster than before, and you can grow your web presence further utilizing your existing cloud or dedicated server before needing to add additional resources.

Enhanced Security

One of the most common forms of attack on the Internet is caused by users’ weak passwords. Non-technical users in particular often have short, easily guessed or cracked passwords which often leads to their email account or FTP service being compromised. We discussed this at length in March this year with Parallels product management team and are pleased that Parallels have listened to our request and implemented industry-leading panel security features including password-strength enforcement, enhanced encryption of sensitive data and strict API security policies which are enabled by default. (Thanks guys!)

Application Deployment

Improved APS support makes the deployment of applications even easier and provides an even more complete deployment process. Web developers can enjoy the ease in which their applications can be deployed to their new development sites, and other customers benefit from the wide range of standard applications available in the application catalog which can now be deployed more seamlessly than ever before!

Web Presence Builder

Many of our customers are finding additional revenue streams in offering shared hosting to their users through our Cloud VPS or Cloud VPS Extreme products which optionally include the new Web Presence Builder 11. It features a new website dashboard, frequently requested design improvement features, and mobile phone optimization to complement existing features such as drag-and-drop modules (blogs, contact forms, breadcrumbs, text and images) and third-party integration (videos from YouTube, Daily Motion and Vimeo, images from Picasa, social media integration with Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn and monetization through Google AdSense).

Service Provider Mode

Easily sell hosting services to your customers using our optional service provider mode (no extra charge!) with full support for resellers, service plans and bundling additional services such as website builders, domain names and SSL certificates. Simply open a support ticket to switch to this commercial hosting mode in minutes.

All new Cloud VPS and Cloud VPS Extreme services ordered from today will be deployed with Plesk 11 as standard!

Thank you to our friends at Parallels for a great release!

Can I upgrade my existing panel to Plesk 11?

If you are currently running Plesk 10, we can perform an upgrade for you any time – simply open a technical support ticket and we’ll be happy to help.

If you are using an older version of Plesk we would be happy to migrate your data to a new server to ensure the smoothest possible transition; simply order a new Cloud VPS or Cloud VPS Extreme via our website and open a technical support ticket for your data to be migrated.