Plesk Sold to Oakley Capital for $105M

[Jonathan]

Oakley Capital has acquired Plesk in a deal valued at $105 million, making Plesk a completely independent company from Parallels.

According to a statement by Plesk on Friday, it plans to move beyond traditional web hosting into the hyperscale cloud – offering support for WordPress management, Docker and microservices, as well as simplified cloud management.

http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/oakley-capital-acquires-plesk-for-105-million

Can Plesk just make up their mind what they want to do, who they want to be?

 

[Lee]

hyperscale cloud

What, like more ram and cpu?

 

[Jonathan]

What, like more ram and cpu?

I have no idea

 

[arussell]

Having seen their plans at WHD.global a couple months ago it seems like they want to move away from small hosters and focus on the really big players, companies like GoDaddy, 123-reg, etc.

 

[ChrisM]

This is all I have to say.

 

[Licensecart]

Interesting they bought out ModernBill and then sell Plesk to another

 

[Jonathan]

Interesting they bought out ModernBill and then sell Plesk to another

Parallel's bought MB shortly after they bought Plesk is memory serves right. Plesk had already been severed from Parallels/Odin/whatever prior to this acquisition.

 

[fm7]

Mid-market private-equity firm Oakley Capital has invested $27.4 million from its third fund in Plesk, a provider of web management services, for a 51% controlling stake.

http://www.penews.com/today/index/content/4076666222/restricted

 

[raindog308]

This is all I have to say.

You guys did Plesk at one point...could have sworn...

 

[Jonathan]

You guys did Plesk at one point...could have sworn...

Did. As in past tense. There's a reason for that.

 

[ChuckC]

Just me or Plesk is like that one girl in high school ...

 

[rmcdougal01]

Plesk is very obtuse, they need to take a retreat to some remote mountain to re-design the entire scheme they are using and the one thing they have to do is to switch from PostFix to Exim I mean PostFix is a great CORPORATE email server but for web hosting is just not that great, corporate environment do not change much, however, web hosting is always changing.

 

[Jonathan]

Postfix is better than Qmail...

 

[CenTex Hosting]

I think Plesk made out with the better end of that deal. I can't even recall when the last time a customer asked for that to be loaded.