With the undeniable rise and dominance of the so-called hyperscalers such as AWS, AlibabaCloud, Azure, our beloved hosting and cloud industries are undergoing massive changes. Traditional hosters of all sizes are surrendering their control over what has to date been considered a key component of their offerings, their datacenters, and moving their workloads to the public cloud.
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4. To be covered
Industry Trends and Numbers
• Rise of the Hyperscalers
• How Websites are built today
• Managed Services
• Focus/Specialization
Solutions: what are they?
What you should do about all this
solutions business!
5. Interactive Poll
Let’s kick off with an interactive poll
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13. Managed Services
Managed Services Tools: MSP software vendors will shift their
development priorities from “integration” to “simplicity.” MSPs will demand
simplified management tools that deliver faster time to deployment and
monetization.
Niche Managed Services: Some MSPs will push into DevOps managed
services; Docker and container services
MSP Valuations: Overall MSP valuations will drop a bit due to increase of
players in the market.
18. What is a Solution?
Simply put:
(some)IaaS + Plesk + selected
extensions + configuration = Solution!
Ready to implement for our Partners
Ready to use for their end-customers
19. Suggested Solutions
Design your own server solution!
1 Business Server
2 WordPress Server
3 Ready to Code Environment
4 High Security Server
5 Forex/Trading Server
22. Business Server
Cookbook available on GitHub:
https://github.com/plesk/business-server
Scripts that install Plesk, selected extensions and configure, making
solution ready to use, presenting the end user with sensible first steps
Use our suggestion or fork and add your own touch!
25. WordPress Server
Cookbook available on GitHub:
https://github.com/plesk/wordpress-server
Scripts that install Plesk, selected extensions and configure, making
solution ready to use, presenting the end user with sensible first steps
Use our suggestion or fork and add your own touch!
26. Why are solutions important?
• They help you to address specific target-groups.
–SMBs (Business Servers and Premium Mail Servers)
–WordPress Professionals (WordPress Servers)
–Digital Agencies (WordPress Servers)
–Developers (Ready to code environments)
• They help you to move away from a pure infrastructure proposition.
–Avoid competing on Price alone, solve a real need of your customers.
–Tailored bundles to differentiate from the competition.
• More $$$$.
–Higher Average Revenue per End-User.
–Harder for customer to migrate with additional services enabled.