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| Developer(s) | Plesk International GmbH |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 2001 |
| Written in | PHP |
| Operating system | Windows, Linux |
| Available in | English Russian Spanish German Portuguese Japanese |
| Type | Web hosting control panel |
| License | Trialware[1] |
| Website | www |
Plesk is a commercial web hosting and server data center automation software developed for Linux and Windows-based retail hosting service providers.
It was developed by Plesk International GmbH, a company with headquarters in Toronto, Canada, and Schaffhausen, Switzerland, with offices in Barcelona, Spain, Cologne, Germany, Tokyo, Japan, and in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, Russia, where it was originally created in 2000 by Dimitri Simonenko.[2]
The hosting automation software was initially released by Plesk Inc. and first went live in 2001. In 2003, Plesk was sold to SWSoft,[3] which became Parallels in 2008.[4][5][6] In March 2015, Parallels renamed the service provider division to Odin. In December of the same year, Plesk became a separate business entity.[7] In 2017, British Oakley Capital Limited acquired Plesk[8] and it has since been a part of WebPros, a global SaaS platform for server management. Currently, WebPros comprises Plesk, cPanel, WHMCS, XOVI, and SolusVM.
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- ^ SWsoft to change its name to Parallels - Date: 11 December 2007 Author: Paul Mah (TechRepublic.com)
- ^ ""New hyperscale cloud offerings, eCommerce and WordPress solutions and more in the offing from newly acquired Plesk" - Lukas Hertig, Plesk. - Web Hosting - Cloud Computing - Datacenter - Domain News". 9 May 2017.
- ^ Henderson, Nicole (15 May 2017). "With Acquisition by Oakley Capital, Plesk Ready for Growth". Web Host Industry Review. Archived from the original on 2017-07-29.