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Plesk alternative: Tenvara

Plesk is a server control panel used by hosts, agencies and IT teams to run websites, mail, DNS and WordPress, with accounts for resellers and customers. Tenvara runs customer websites through the same agent you already use for monitoring and patching, with no panel to install on the server. You create sites, issue certificates, manage databases, deploy from git, back sites up and update WordPress from one place, and site alerts land in your normal tickets.

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Tenvara: Proxmox and web hosting

The tool today

What Plesk does

Web hosting control panel for websites, mail, DNS and WordPress on Linux and Windows servers. Made by Plesk. This is how the vendor describes it, in our words.

  • Build and manage many websites from one dashboard, on Linux or Windows servers.
  • WP Toolkit for WordPress: mass management, staging, cloning, updates and security.
  • Mail server with Roundcube and Horde webmail, plus DKIM, SPF and DMARC.
  • DNS zones with DNSSEC, databases, SSL certificates and Git deployment.
  • Scheduled incremental backups, including to cloud storage.
  • Reseller and customer subscription management, and more than 100 extensions.

Side by side

Tenvara vs Plesk

The Proxmox and web hosting jobs that matter most, and how each product handles them. Then what else comes with Tenvara, such as a service desk, backup and Microsoft 365 backup, in the same app.

Create and manage websites

Tenvara Yes

PHP, Laravel, WordPress, Node.js and static on nginx Guide

Plesk Yes

Many sites from one dashboard

SSL certificates

Tenvara Yes

Let's Encrypt with automatic renewal, or upload Guide

Plesk Yes

Let's Encrypt and SSL extensions

Databases

Tenvara Yes

MariaDB or MySQL, dumps and restore Guide

Plesk Yes

MariaDB, plus PostgreSQL and MSSQL modules

SFTP and cron

Tenvara Yes

Chrooted SFTP per site, cron as the site user Guide

Plesk Yes

FTP accounts and scheduled tasks

Git deploys

Tenvara Yes

Atomic releases, deploy on push, instant rollback Guide

Plesk Yes

Git integration

WordPress management

Tenvara Yes

Guarded updates with rollback, hardening checks Guide

Plesk Yes

WP Toolkit with staging and cloning

WordPress admin sign-in

Tenvara Yes

One-click wp-admin sign-in and password reset Guide

Plesk Yes

WP Toolkit Log in button

Site checks you choose

Tenvara Yes

Path, status, keyword, JSON or header checks Guide

Plesk Yes

360 Monitoring with uptime and keyword checks

Site backups

Tenvara Yes

Scheduled on the server, plus Tenvara Backup offsite Guide

Plesk Yes

Incremental, to S3, Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox

Windows servers

Tenvara Yes

IIS sites, SQL Server and MySQL on Windows Guide

Plesk Yes

Plesk for Linux and Windows

Customer and reseller accounts

Tenvara Yes

Reseller and site owner accounts in the panel Guide

Plesk Yes

Reseller and customer subscriptions

PHP settings per site

Tenvara Yes

Memory, uploads, time limit and functions, within your limits Guide

Plesk Yes

Per plan, subscription, website and subdomain

Nextcloud hosting

Tenvara Yes

A Nextcloud runtime set up as Nextcloud documents Guide

Plesk Yes

Nextcloud extension with a one-click installer

Docker containers

Tenvara Yes

Found by the agent, image updates with roll back Guide

Plesk Yes

Docker extension to run and manage containers

Also in Tenvara

What else you get with Tenvara, in the same app

PSA and service desk

Tenvara Yes

Tickets, SLAs, time and contracts on the same customer record Guide

Plesk Add-on

Separate product: WHMCS

Endpoint, server and VM backup

Tenvara Yes

Image, folder and Hyper-V or Proxmox VM backups Guide

Plesk Add-on

Separate product: Comet Backup

Microsoft 365 backup

Tenvara Yes

Mail, OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams backed up and restored Guide

Plesk Add-on

Separate product: Comet Backup

Microsoft 365 management

Tenvara Yes

Every customer tenant, its users, licences, starters and leavers Guide

Plesk No

Not included

Remote access

Tenvara Yes

Control a device's screen from the browser, with every session logged Guide

Plesk No

Not included

Quotes and proposals

Tenvara Yes

Branded proposals with customer e-signature Guide

Plesk Add-on

Separate product: WHMCS

IT documentation

Tenvara Yes

Customer records and knowledge base articles, linked to devices Guide

Plesk No

Not included

Credentials vault

Tenvara Yes

Encrypted logins and two-factor secrets, with every reveal logged Guide

Plesk No

Not included

Add-on means the vendor sells it as a separate product or paid extra. Plesk details come from the vendor's own website, see sources.

The one-app pitch

What else you'd replace

Most MSPs running Plesk pay for several other tools beside it. Tenvara does these jobs too, on the same customer record, with one agent and one login.

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Switching

Moving from Plesk

A calm move, not a big bang. Run both side by side until your team is happy.

How a gradual move to Tenvara works
  1. 1

    Build a server and install the agent

    Site operations run on Linux with nginx (Ubuntu 24.04 or Debian 12). Install the Tenvara agent the same way as on any server.

    Installing the agent
  2. 2

    Adopt the server

    An administrator adopts it, setting the backup folder and the contact email for certificates. Sites already on a server show as discovered and are left exactly as they are.

    Web servers
  3. 3

    Create each site and move it across

    Create the site with its runtime and domains, then bring the code in by a git deploy or an uploaded build, or over SFTP.

    Creating and managing sites
  4. 4

    Point DNS and issue certificates

    Once DNS points at the new server, issue a Let's Encrypt certificate from the site page. Renewals then run by themselves.

    Creating and managing sites
  5. 5

    Set up backups and alerts

    Give each site a backup schedule, protect the server with Tenvara Backup for a copy elsewhere, and let site alerts open tickets through your alert rules.

    Deploys and site backups

Plesk pricing

Plesk publishes licence prices by edition on its pricing page: Web Admin (10 domains), Web Pro (30 domains) and Web Host (unlimited domains), for VPS and dedicated servers.

Vendor pricing page

Tenvara pricing

One product with every feature included, hosted or self-hosted. Tenvara is new and in beta, and pricing is announced before launch.

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Questions

Plesk vs Tenvara: FAQ

No panel is needed. The Tenvara agent does the work: once an administrator adopts the server, it runs a fixed catalogue of site operations covering sites, certificates, databases, SFTP, cron, deploys, backups and WordPress updates.

They show as discovered. Tenvara reports them and checks them over HTTPS, and leaves them exactly as they are. Sites you create in Tenvara are fully managed.

Before updating, the server snapshots the site and its database and checks the home page and login page answer. If they stop answering afterwards, everything rolls back by itself.

Yes. A shared server can host several customers' sites, and each site belongs to its customer, so it shows on the right customer page and in the right reports.

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Apply for the beta to run Tenvara side by side with Plesk before you decide, or get launch updates and hear first when pricing is announced.

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Comparison based on publicly available information as of September 2026. Plesk is a trademark of its owner; Tenvara is not affiliated with it. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we'll correct it.

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