Hi all.

I've been using Ensim for the last couple of years, and have finally had enough. So without breaking from the tradition of looking over the fence, i've gone ahead and purchased a copy of Plesk Plus 7.5 for windows based upon a short trial.

I am now considering purchasing Plesk for Linux as a replacement for our Ensim hosting. I'd appreciated your feedback, esp. if you have used Ensim along with Plesk.
Some more specific questions that come to mind are:

* does Plesk reloaded use a virtual file system for each site?
* does Plesk cause major *&(# up's on upgrades?
* What panel do you think is the better one and what are the advantages of each?
* Is there anything that you would like Plesk to provide that it doesn't?
* What OS do you recommend configuring it on?

In short, would you advise plesk over ensim for linux?

Thanks for you help.

only for apache, not for shell nor e-mail


yes, being based on RPMs there are things you shouldn't touch in plesk, it doesn't like php and mysql being upgraded by anything else but its own scripts


I like ensim's chroot structure overall, sendmail as MTA (plesk uses qmail which I don't know how it works). However Plesk looks more featureful and it's less CPU hungry. In terms of features I would choose plesk, in terms of security out-of-the box and simplicity I'd choose ensim. Uhh, by the way Mail Antivirus is free on Ensim and Dr. Web requires a license on Plesk, so you TCO on Plesk can be higher in the end.


My experience with Plesk is not as extense to answer here


I don't know exactly what you mean, but I guess you are trying to say Linux distro, Ensim can run on Fedora and RHEL, I'd choose RedHat Enterprise Linux in terms of stability, same goes for Plesk which I don't know what Linux distros support. One thing I'm sure of, I don't want to have "bleeding edge technology" on my server, I prefer stability.

regards