Yes — Plesk runs on Windows Server and is the control panel we install on Windows-based servers.
What you should know
- Plesk is licensed software and charged monthly on top of the server. The price depends on the edition and the number of domains it needs to manage — open a ticket with our Sales department and we will confirm the current price for the configuration you need.
- The Windows licence is separate from both the server and the panel — see Is the Windows licence included in the plan price?
- Use a supported Windows Server version. Plesk supports the current releases; older ones drop out of support along with the operating system itself. If your server runs an older version, tell us and we will check what is possible.
Is Windows the right choice?
Worth asking, because it affects the total cost. If your sites are built on PHP-based platforms — WordPress, Joomla and the like — they run on Linux without a Windows licence and often with better performance. Windows is the right choice when you actually need it: ASP.NET applications, MS SQL Server, or Windows-only software.
On Linux you also have more panel options, including free ones — see Installing VestaCP.
Other panels on Windows
Most hosting control panels are Linux-only. ISPmanager and KeyHelp do not run on Windows, and DirectAdmin does not either — see Which operating systems support DirectAdmin?
If you are not sure which combination of operating system and panel suits your project, describe what you plan to run in a ticket and we will suggest an option — including the licence costs, so that you can compare properly.
