PLESK ANNOUNCES PSA-VPS, BUNDLING FREE VIRTUAL PRIVATE SERVER WITH PSA FOR A FRACTION OF THE PRICE OF ALTERNATIVES

HostReview.com
Monday, December 9, 2002; 12:00 AM

CHANTILLY, Virginia, December 9, 2002 — Plesk™, Inc., the market leader in automated Web hosting software, announced today a turn-key Virtual Private Server (VPS) package that combines a new 10-domain version of the Plesk Server Administrator (PSA) 5.0 hosting automation platform with the Vserver open-source VPS technology, for $1,000. When combined with PSA 5.0 Master, which manages up to 50 PSA servers from a single console, the total entry-level retail price of $1,199 provides nearly identical functionality as proprietary alternatives that start at $20,000.

Since Vserver was developed by the Linux open-source community, it is the defacto standard for VPS technologies. The ongoing evolution of Vserver by experts worldwide ensures the latest refinements in performance, reliability and ease-of-use. When bundled with PSA 5.0, the package establishes a highly competitive price/performance threshold.

"PSA-VPS is the next logical step in the evolution of our industry," said George Pappas, president and CEO of Plesk. "In speaking with our customers, we saw the opportunity to repackage PSA to drive the emergence of a new class of service that revolutionizes the economics of hosting for a growing segment of the industry."

PSA-VPS fuels the hosting industry's demand for a high-margin, reliable VPS offering for price-conscious users. By slicing a single server into many virtual servers, resellers can host more domains while offering their customers the control of a dedicated server.

Since PSA-VPS capitalizes on the commoditization and proliferation of VPS, the specially packaged 10-domain VPS version of PSA runs on most VPS software. This breakthrough enables the industry to combine value and ease-of-use across the hosting provider, reseller and enterprise user.

Support packages are available from Plesk for PSA-VPS that apply to both PSA 5.0 and Vserver.

Plesk Server Administrator

PSA substantially reduces the support requirements for Web hosting providers and enterprise users. PSA liberates technical support staff from the tedium of manual tasks and instead allows them to focus on more important, value-added services that increase customer acquisition and retention. PSA has been architected to provide a full range of Web hosting automation benefits throughout the reseller channel and to the ultimate enterprise user.

PSA 5.0 Master empowers non-technical personnel to perform changes, across a limitless number of hosting plans, with the assurance of a certified IT professional. PSA 5.0 Master lets hosting providers add resellers without incremental IT personnel, further increasing profitability. Plesk Server Administrator 5.0 Master consolidates power while expanding opportunities.

About Plesk, Inc.

Plesk, Inc. develops, markets and supports software that simplifies and automates the full range of server configuration and management tasks required for Web hosting. Using point-and-click user interfaces presented through standard Web browsers, Plesk Server Administrator enables non-technical customers and Web hosting companies to manage their own domains, and Web hosting companies and their service resellers to deliver better and faster customer support at lower cost. In less than two years, Plesk software has earned the enthusiastic praise and loyalty of hundreds of Web hosting companies and thousands of their customers. HostingTech Magazine in November 2001 wrote "In the load test, there was no discernable difference in performance during heavy CPU usage times. Speed and simplicity are why Plesk has perhaps the best selling of all the control panels." For more information about Plesk, visit www.plesk.com or call (888) 209-8900.

"Plesk" and "Plesk Server Administrator" are trademarks of Plesk, Inc. All other product, service and company names are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

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