Plesk Overview

Developed for professional hosting service providers, the Plesk control panel is a comprehensive server management software. The advantages that Plesk provides set the standard for hosting automation and control panels.

Innovative Ease of Use
The Plesk control panel has a redesigned cleaner and easier to use interface. The control panel comes with many additional skins and even gives users the ability to design custom skins and manage them in the browser-based interface. In particular, the new desktop feature increases the usability and flexibility of the control panel significantly.

Highest Stability
Plesk has been specifically designed to be the most stable and secure control panel available. Plesk has been proven under fire managing 5 million plus domains globally and can support thousands of accounts per server increasing profitability.

Most Secure
Not only does Plesk control panel contain new security measures but also, existing security features have been improved. The control panel's redesigned subsystem improves overall system security as well as support for 3rd party FTP servers that make secure uploads possible.

Comprehensive
The Plesk control panel allows users to benefit from a new level of integration with other products and applications, including the ability to install many popular web applications at the click of a button. The completely customizable "Application Vault" can manage dozens of integrated applications including Ecommerce, Chat, and Bulletin Board. Also, SiteBuilder integration allows users to create websites easily and without any technical knowledge.

Fully Automated
With 100+ new enhancements the control panel delivers a new ease of management through features like our key auto-update mechanism, auto-component updater, migration manager and a Web-based installation for quick deployment and dedicated need for support.

Advanced Linux/Windows Platform Support
Plesk for Linux/UNIX and Windows now have many common features, skins, application packs, language packs and documentation. Operating systems supported are RedHat, SuSE, Fedora Core, FreeBSD, Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu, MacOS and Windows.

Plesk Management Levels

Plesk is a comprehensive control panel solution used by many leading companies worldwide for shared, virtual and dedicated hosting. The control panel is designed to simplify the management and administration of web sites. The Plesk control panel automates a large number of tasks which allows you, the administrator, to reduce operating costs and resources while at the same time increasing profitability, efficiency and customer satisfaction.

There are four login levels in Plesk, each level having its own appropriate roles and responsibilities:

Administrator - The highest individual server level login which allows web hosting administrators to set up and manage all system items. Our products at this level include:
Linux vServer Plesk
Windows vServer Plesk
Dedicated Servers with Plesk for Linux
Dedicated Server with Plesk for Windows

Client/Reseller - Second tier login account where the users are given domain creation rights from the System Administrator. Clients can administer to groups of domains using a single login. Please see the following page for iDAQ products that other this level of administration:
Reseller Hosting

Domain Owner - These are third tier individual domain owner accounts with predetermined permission sets and interface for single domain administration.

Mail User - This is the fourth tier individual mail account which allows the user to log in to their own private interface and manage passwords, spam filters, anti-virus settings and much more.

For more detailed information about Plesk please see:

Linux Plesk - click here
Windows Plesk - click here