Today we are pleased to announce that Plesk offers official support for ARM architecture.
Our new reality is affected by the electricity crisis – most European providers were forced to announce price increases in 2022, as a result of the increased electricity prices. One of the main advantages of using ARM architecture is cost efficiency, as less power is consumed.
Since the release of Plesk Obsidian 18.0.46, the Plesk Panel is available and can be installed on Ubuntu 22 with ARM architecture. You can get a VPS with Plesk Panel on Graviton2 processors with one click, using Plesk AWS AMI image or an Oracle Cloud Marketplace. By deploying the Plesk Panel on VPSes with ARM CPUs, you can reduce server resource costs while maintaining high performance. By deploying Plesk on VPSes with ARM CPUs, you can reduce server resource costs while maintaining high performance.
With the release of Plesk Obsidian 18.0.41, we announced a technology preview and started Plesk beta-testing. It is available for installation on Ubuntu 20 with ARM architecture.
Over the past eight months, we have seen demand for this technology, and hundreds of Plesk servers are now running on ARM. We thank all our customers for their feedback. It is available, for example, in our forum thread. Based on the feedback, we have fixed found issues, removed certain limitations, and added support for popular Plesk extensions.
Today we are pleased to announce official support for Plesk running on ARM servers.
We have already talked about the ARM architecture and why you should use servers based on it before.
See our previous article.