Plesk Control panel – PRELUDE
One year has passed and I think that it is the right time to give back to the community. Last year I started to work with the Plesk
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control panel on a daily basis and now it is the time to give you some feedback. I have to tell you right at the start of this review that I have used many different web hosting control panels over the years [Cpanel, DirectAdmin, Webmin, 1and1 CP etc.] and thus I really know what I need, what I like and dislike about them and how a perfect control panel should look like according to me 
If you are like the majority of web hosting customers from USA or Canada than I bet you have been using Cpanel control panel all the time. The only exception would be if you are coming from 1and1 or GoDaddy or a similar company as they are using their own control panels you will not find anywhere else 
What I wanted to say with the previous paragraph? Yeah, now I know. The Parallels Plesk control panel will be a relatively big move – both logical and in terms of user experience and work as well – for anyone coming from a Cpanel environment. The organization is a lot different than you know from Cpanel. The design and work space differs in every aspect from what you can see and are used to at Cpanel, 1and1 or GoDaddy…But I have to say that it is a change for the better in many areas.
Key things I liked about Parallels Plesk CP after my first months:
- Real domain names [not like "Addon domain names" in Cpanel]
- No need to scroll for ages to find Softaculous or AWstats in the right “rectangle” [I do not use them, but the point is the scrolling thing
] - Instant image of what is going on – how much bandwidth, disk space etc. you are consuming without any extra and not needed data distracting my view
- The majority of tools and buttons you would be looking for is right where you would expect them to be [no need to move sections like in Cpanel although this is a nice thing in Cpanel as you are able to customize the view according to you, but sometimes it is really annoying then helpful]
- No “Spam” buttons – and by spam I mean buttons I’ve never clicked in my life and are present on the default Cpanel CP page [I really doubt anyone really uses them/clicks on them] :(
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