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Plesk

In short: A control panel for managing websites, email and servers, popular on Windows hosting.

Plesk does a similar job to cPanel and runs on Linux and Windows servers. Like cPanel, it's licensed, so check whether the licence is included in your plan's renewal price.

Also called

  • Control panel

See also: Managed vs unmanaged hosting: what's the difference?

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