Plesk Onyx & Its Features

Plesk Onyx is the smoothest upgrade of traditional Plesk control panel with advance features along with the support for many new technologies like Docker , Git etc.
With this new version of plesk below features are dropped from Plesk Onyx control panel.

• Customer and Business Manager
• Windows VZ Templates
• x86-based distributions of operating systems
• CentOS 5 / RHEL5 / CloudLinux 5
• Microsoft Windows 2008 (not R2)
• ASP.NET 1.1
• SmarterMail 6.x - 9.x
• Miva
• Shared SSL support on Windows
• Unity Mobile
• 10.4 upgrade drop
• perl-apache-asp component drop

Lets take a look at the new features of Plesk Onyx

Support For Database -
• Mysql
• PostgresSql
• MariaDB
• MSSQL ( Windows )

Database Tools
• Scan
• Repair
• Report
• Fix



Git Support -

Plesk Onyx introduces integration with Git , it enables you to do
• Easy deployment of your websites by either pushing it to a local or by pulling from a remote one Git repo.
• Software engineering service of your choice like Github , Travis etc..
• Multiple Branch Support in single repository
• Automatic Deployment

Docker Support -

Plesk Onyx comes with Docker support.
• on-demand access to a wide range of modern technologies
• choose from catalog of available images mongodb , redis etc..
• Deploy and manage docker containers locally and remotely

Windows Server 2016 Support

Plesk Onyx supports the Standard and Datacenter editions of Windows Server 2016 with IIS 10
• Wildcard subdomains
• HTTP/2 support
• New cipher suites

System Resource Usage Limits
Introducing the ability to limit the amount of system resources that can be used by a particular subscription or hosting account which will help to prevent server abuse caused by either malicious or poorly written script.

The following system resources can be limited by this feature:
• CPU
• RAM
• Disk I/O


DNSSEC Support

A new feature which allows users to protect the DNS data of their hosted domains with DNSSEC . DNSSEC stands for Domain Name System Security Extensions it's a set of DNS protocol.
With the feature user can do
• Configure the settings used for key generation and rollover
• Sign and unsign domain zones according to the DNSSEC specifications
• Receive notifications related to DNSSEC records and keys
• View and copy DS resource records and DNSKEY resource record sets

SSL support & Improvements
Plesk Onyx comes with a set of security improvements which will help you to harden the server. This feature will help to
• Force https connection to websites hosted in Plesk
• Mail servers can be secured using SSL/TLS
• Secured webmail connection with SSL/TLS

Ruby Support
Plesk onyx has proper Ruby language support as a plesk extension. The Ruby extension available in Plesk Onyx allows users to quickly and easily deploy Ruby apps on their domains.
• Enable Ruby support on any given virtual host
• Choose which Ruby version should be used on a domain.
• Install gem file dependencies via UI using Bundler tool
• Specify custom environment variables
• Edit configuration files

Node.js support
Plesk Onyx offers Node.js support , Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform runtime environment for developing server-side Web applications.
• Add Node.js applications to your websites with just a few clicks.
• Easily manage the application from Plesk (start/stop/restart the application, install NPM packages, run scripts, edit the configuration files - Plesk does it all).
• Have multiple Node.js versions installed on the server (Plesk for Linux only)

I use Plesk for my personal domains and Onyx is a real step up. Super stable, a load of great extensions/plugins and easy to work your way around. It just looks and feels so modern.

We still only sell cpanel though, its what customers want so it's what we offer.

Plesk rocks all the way.