"The German business recently sent an email to customers of its virtual private server (VPS) service, notifying them that an extra fee would be levied as of October 30. This charge comprises a monthly fee of £5 (excluding VAT) per Plesk license, which may not seem like much, but because each server a customer operates has its own Plesk license, the extra costs would soon mount up for anyone running more than a few server instances."
"Customers are presented with two options: do nothing, and the extra costs will be automatically billed to them monthly from October 30, or remove Plesk from their server instances by deleting the license key to avoid the extra charge. However, Plesk is the hosting control panel through which customers manage their servers and the services running on them, and removing it could make management more troublesome. It may be possible to run an alternative admin control panel, of course."
Ionos notified VPS customers of a new charge effective October 30: a monthly fee of £5 (excluding VAT) per Plesk license. Each server instance uses its own Plesk license, so the surcharge increases costs for users with multiple servers. Ionos attributed the change to a significant license price rise from partner WebPros International and said it can only partly absorb the increase. Customers can accept automatic billing or delete the Plesk license key to avoid charges, though removing Plesk could complicate server management; alternative admin control panels may be possible. Some customers complained about mid-contract timing and short notice for migration.
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