Plesk Obsidian v18.0.61 is now available, and we are excited to finally announce experimental support for one of our most highly requested features, HTTP/3. So let’s dive into it:
HTTP/3 Experimental Support
Your sites accessed by mobile users just got a speed boost!
Plesk servers using NGINX now have the option to try out our new HTTP/3 Experimental Support.
The last significant update to HTTP in general was in 2015 when HTTP/2 became available. HTTP/3 is optimized to better serve mobile users, particularly when mobile devices switch between WiFi and cellular data. Watch your sites respond quicker than ever to serve customers and clients on the go.
Reduce mobile load times with QUIC. To get a bit more technical, HTTP/3 uses QUIC, a protocol designed for mobile devices and their inherent network hopping. QUIC also encrypts transport handshakes by default, enhancing the security experience. This is all accomplished by QUIC making two handshakes at once, combining TCP and TLS handshakes. This makes connections and a user’s experience more efficient, by reducing the time it currently takes HTTP/2 to wait to start that TLS handshake after TCP connection events finish.
Ready to unlock faster mobile website speeds? Upgrade your Plesk server with NGINX and enable HTTP/3 experimental support today! Plesk running Apache as the sole web server, however, does not support HTTP/3. Learn more about HTTP/3 and its integration with NGINX in the Plesk documentation.
Renewed Home Dashboard Experience
Customize your Service Provider View Home dashboard with our new Beta feature, featuring drag-and-drop informational blocks! Clear out informational clutter and focus on what matters to you.
The following blocks are available to customize your Home dashboard in the Service Provider View:
- Plesk version – Plesk version and information about any available updates.
- Server Information – Server hostname, IP address, OS, and uptime.
- Last server backup – The status of server backup and backup schedule.
- Performance Booster – Available server and website performance optimizations.
- What’s New – Latest entries from the Plesk changelog.
- IP Address Banning – The status of the Fail2Ban service.
- Mail Queue – The status of the email queue (Postfix only).
- Promo – Information about possible customizations and additional features.
- CPU usage – Daily CPU usage information.
- Memory usage – Daily memory usage information.
- Subscriptions with overuse – The list of subscriptions with resource overuse.
- My subscription – Subscriptions owned by the administrator.
- Custom Buttons – display custom buttons added by the administrator.
