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The upgrade of Plesk was, in hindsight, maybe not a good idea. As has happened before, there are a few bugs. One that I had to fix manually with a previous upgrade was with the ioncube loader. The reference has to be moved from one ini file to another because it has to be loaded prior to other extensions. 6 months ago it took a day or more to figure this out. Fortunately, I remembered and have learned enough since that it was only a few minutes to resolve.

General opinion of Plesk is that it looks great with a nice interface, has decent functionality, but lacking in QA (lots of bugs). With each upgrade, one would hope that bug fixes outweigh the new bugs added or old bugs reintroduced. But this is often not the case. I am more inclined to update Plesk rarely if ever. It has definitely been a positive factor in allowing me to do things with Linux that I would not have otherwise been able to do (or rather much faster). It has also forced me to do some debugging of things that I would not likely have had to deal with.

In short, would I use Plesk again knowing what I know now? Maybe. I would have better Linux experience at this point without it, but not sure at what cost in number of hours.