Feature Suggestions
Please provide here your suggestion for new functionality for Plesk. We encourage you to review and vote for suggestions of others. The top-ranked suggestions are likely to be included in the next versions of Plesk.
Please write in English so that voters from all over the world can read and support your request.
Off-topic posts will be removed from here
43 results found
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Add new site or modify existing site without Apache restart /graceful restart
For example, Odin uses a system where all the website information is stored inside a NoSQL database, and apache just reads this data with a special module:
http://www.odin.com/products/automation/services-and-applications/shared-hosting-next-generation/
37 votesThis feature has not gotten many votes during the past five years. Technically, a graceful restart of Apache is unnoticeable for the user as not service interruption occurs. Further, Apaches model loads all configuration data into memory upon start or reload. The Odin link provided in the comments does not lead to a more details explanation of the feature request. And finally, in the Nginx/Apache combination with an increasing number of users considering Nginx-only hosting a change in the Apache worker process won't be sufficient.
Please provide a sound explanation why a graceful restart of web servers is insufficient for adding or modifying web server configuration.
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Customizable Plesk notification email address
Plesk has the ability to send notifications. However, with the latest version (v18.0.32) these are sent to my "External email address" of the admin user. But since I as admin user enter my Apple iCloud email "name@icloud.com" there, it is used as both sender and recipient and all notification emails end up in the spam folder of my iCloud mail.
It would be really great if you could separate the administrator email from the notification email address and change it specifically so that email notifications are sent from "Plesk@domain.tld" to the external administrator email "name@icloud.com…24 votesAs https://plesk.uservoice.com/forums/184549-feature-suggestions/suggestions/16956373-set-a-senders-email-address-for-plesk-notification was resolved and the sender address of notifications is now customizable we are wondering whether the issue described in this feature request cannot also be considered solved. The issue here was described as sender and recipient being the same address so that notifications are evaluated as "spam" at the recipient's mailbox. However, now that the sender address can be customized, this could easily be circumvented.
Further, the recipient address of notifications can be freely set in the notifications page.
Please comment if and why this feature request is still actual.
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DNS Authorisation for Let's Encrypt
Described in https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-acme-acme-06#section-8.4
The problems with mail/webmail/lists subdomains could be obsolete, because a acmechallenge.lists.domain.tld txt record could be challenged.
So no problems with webroots etc.24 votesIt's been several years since this feature request was added. Meanwhile a wealth of option is supported by Let's Encrypt through the SSLIt extension. Could you please provide some usage example what is still needed beyond the current solution?
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Oracle Linux 8 Support - CentOS 8 is dead
Hello,
is there any chance to give Oracle Linux to became official supported?
Since the bad news about CentOS 8 EoL on 31.December 2021.
The best option now is Oracle Linux (100% binary compatible OS)Best Regards
22 votesBy the end of 2022 the market share of Oracle Linux was only half of the next up competitor Alma and less than 1/10 of RHEL, Rocky and Alma combined. For that reason, we'd love to hear from you why you believe that Oracle Linux will be the next big player despite the low market share.
For example do you see specific technical reasons why Oracle Linux should be preferred over development for the much more popular platforms? E.g. ARM support and do you actually need it? Are there other aspects that can give good reasons to consider this OS over others?
Please let us know in the comments.
-- PD
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DKIM - needed to import own keys
DKIM - needed to import own keys
It is not fair solution that Plesk generate a private key, and i cannot extract and date them in a seperate Backup
Please let us import our own DKIM keys
20 votesThis feature request has been reviewed and we are asking WHY it is important to import your own keys? After all, these are just some keys that only have one requirement: They must match what is configured in DNS. What is the advantage of using some specific, pre-configured key over just letting the server generate and maintain the key? Isn't that much easier for a user?
Please give us good reasons why you need own keys in your comments so that we understand this better and can think of a suitable solution.
-- PD
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Extended license for mail servers
Hello,
Please add the possibility to purchase an extended license for mail servers with Plesk.
It would be helpful if I prefer to separate my mail services from my main hosting.
17 votesAs you can simply use a normal Plesk license for using Plesk as a mail-only server, we would like to understand what an "extended license" should be? Could you please describe what you expect from such a license in terms of features that are available in it and price?
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VSFTPD Support
How about support for vsftpd, its a very secure FTP server.
12 votesThis feature request only received 12 votes over the course of 6 years. We have reviewed the request and would like to ask you why you believe that vsftpd brings you advantages over the existing solutions (like ProFTPD). The existing FTP server has proven to be great for millions of websites through all the years. Please give us some good arguments why vsftpd would be even better.
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Add IgnoreHosts options to Plesk`s DMARC implementation
Currently it is possible to whitelist only domain with IgnoreMailFrom parameter. However there could be false-positive DMARC failures (in case sender's strict policy and mail going throughout relay) due to which it could be useful to have option to whitelist specific network. It would be nice having this option available
10 votesDuring research, we have found that the request is about passing emails via intermediate mail gateway (which works as an anti-spam solution) and the idea of the request is do not check SPF for these emails on Plesk side.
In Plesk, there is already exist a solution for that: need to use "SPF Local rules" setting to configure an SPF record which will be used by Plesk to validate emails (including emails from an intermediate anti-spam solution). See KB article for mode details (https://support.plesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360022753174) and Plesk documentation.
If it does not solve the issue on you Plesk environment and you still need the "IgnoreHost" option, let us know more details about you case for that in comments below.
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FTP Repository quota
there is no option to set a quota for the NUMBER of backups that can be saved in an ftp repository.
9 votesWe have reviewed the feature request and have not yet understood what benefit limiting backup sets by the number could have? Why is that necessary? Disk space is normally billed by volume, not by the number of files in the space, so we'd love to hear what advantage you are seeing when you can limit the number of files in a backup space?
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Add support SFTP and FTPS protocol for migration
We are only able to use a FTP connection to migrate a website. It would be a nice add to be able to use SFTP and FTPS to connect to the old server,
8 votesPlesk Migrator uses an SSH based connection, which is close to SFTP, but a technologically advanced solution. Could you please explain where you are seeking SFTP and FTPS and why you believe that this is better than the current Plesk Migrator solution?
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It is difficult to identify the offending website, and this would help tracking it down
It is difficult to identify the offending website, and this would help tracking it down
8 votesIt is unclear what is meant by "offending website" and what "this" is to help tracking "it" down. Please describe in detail what this feature request is about.
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LiteSpeed 1 Click On
Please enable LiteSpeed with one click, just like changing from apache to nginx. thanks!
7 votesCould you please clarify what you mean? Switching between installed web servers or 1 click on installation of LiteSpeed?
Thanks
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Better Integration with AWS Services
There needs to be integration with Amazon SES, like make it another option in the SMTP options. The current method of choosing MSMTP (in order to configure it as an external SMTP service) will uninstall your other inbound mail services, like Dovecot and Postfix.
Additionally, a way to integrate the AWS Route 53 service would be very helpful. Maybe this could be added as an Extension.
7 votesRoute 53 extension is already available https://www.plesk.com/extensions/amazon-route53/, https://youtu.be/3F3Byyea0ds. For the other part of this request, "integration with Amazon SES" please describe how such an integration should look like? What should it do, what configuration options do you expect that it is an "integration"?
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More advanced anti-ddos interface and settings
This (https://support.plesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000784914-What-DDoS-protection-tools-are-available-in-Plesk) recently updated article shows that we still need paid extensions to better protect our servers against ddos attacks.
It would be great if Plesk would create a more advanced anti-ddos monitoring tool with a useful interface, alerts, and the right amount of settings to better protect our servers from ddos attacks without the need to install a third party extension with additional costs. Preferably created with "good defaults" in mind.
7 votesEffective DDoS solutions must be installed before the server, not on the server. Because once an attack is able to reach the server, it will block all network bandwith and create a high cpu load so that the server becomes unavailable for other tasks. No on-server DDoS protection can perform good enough to keep a server safe from that. Plesk already has on-server protection, such as Fail2Ban and the built-in firewall capabilities. Nevertheless, we'd love to hear what you are missing as an on-server protection.
The request asks for and "advanced anti-ddos monitoring tool with a useful interface, alerts, and the right amount of settings".
Could you please be specific about these points.
- What exactly makes an "advanced" tool for you?
- How do you imagine a "useful" interface?
- What "alerts" would you like to get?
- What are the "right amount of settings" for you?
Please let…
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add mod_php7.0 installer
It's time to add mod_php7.0 and maybe some autoinstaller for most liked modules like ioncubeloader and apcu etc...
7 votesThis feature request has been reviewed, but we are not seeing any reason why someone would want to use mod_php over existing PHP handler solutions. If you are after speed, why not use Nginx-only hosting along with the Plesk "PHP-FPM via Nginx" PHP handlers that are known to deliver top-notch speed for websites?
Please tell us more in your comments why you believe you need the Apache integration of PHP. What benefits do you expect?
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Managing crontab via CLI
It would be very conenient to be able to manage the subscriptions' scheduled tasks via CLI.
6 votescronjobs can easily be managed by Linux commands already. They may not be sourced from Plesk, but all tools already exist on the operating system. As cronjobs are read by Plesk from disk, manipulating the corresponding files on disk will set everything you wish. Individual cron files are stored in /var/spool/cron and can be text-edited. You can add files, edit files, append files and delete files using Linux commands. You can also stream-edit files (e.g. insert a commend tag before a line with sed) and also create Linux control while-loops to apply changes to filtered files. Cron can also be controlled directly (https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/crontab.1.html).
Please let us know in details what you are missing or please provide an example how you would like Plesk to work with cron instead.
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Add the option to forbid execution of files in Plesk for Windows
In Plesk for Windows, add options to forbid executing .exe, .bat and other executable files in order to prevent starting of malicious scripts.
It should be added to domain and server-wide levels.6 votesWhere in Plesk for Windows can you directly execute files? Where should .exe, .bat, .com be blocked?
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Allowing customers to whitelist IP address's from their control panel.
Giving the customer the option to whitelist any IP address from their control panel.
At the moment, if a customer wants to whitelist an IP address they cannot without server admin whitelisting the IP across the server.
cPanel have this option with Mod Security Manager.
5 votesAllowing endusers to whitelist themselves can result in significant security risks. For example malicious users could use this tactic to drive brute-force attacks against the server or other users on the same server which cannot be noticed when that malicious user has whitelisted his own IP. Please let us know in your comments what scenarios you see where allowing an enduser to circumvent a security mechanism is a benefit for operating your server.
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Allow a@example.com only to send mail to example.com
Allow a@example.com only to send mail to example.com
5 votesThis feature request has been reviewed and despite the explanation we are having difficulties understanding what exactly is meant. Is this about sending mails from the server or is this about receiving mails that are addressed to a mailbox on the server? Could you please describe this in more detail who is sender, who is recipient and what you would like to exclude from happening and why?
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cache requests with cookies
"cache requests with cookies"-settings that if there is a cookie with no value (eg. set by a third party app like intercom), the settings will be ignored and cause a MISS cache.
4 votesCould you please in clear, straight-forward words formulate what this request is about? Is it "Ignore empty cookies when determining whether a page shall be cached or not" or something like that? From neither headline, nor initial description, nor detailed comment it is clear what is actually asked for.
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