Features
Complete Documentation
- Context-sensitive quick online help for all objects in the control panel
- Detailed context-sensitive online help for all interface pages
- Browsable online help with table of contents and index
- Brief introduction to new features upon first login
- Online Flash demonstrations walk novice users through all aspects of Plesk usage
Domain Management
- Friendly and intuitive control panel interface
- Step-by-step wizards for common tasks
- Preview websites before DNS propagation
- Customizable Plesk Desktop with buttons for most used tasks, vital status indications as well as lists of recently visited and favourite locations in the control panel
- Automatically create a new site with point-and-click ease, based on a domain template or custom requirements
- Automatically create DNS and appropriate application entries, such as Apache, FTP
- Upgrade the resources available to an existing site, manage permissions
- Manage all domains on the system with a single login
- Create Sub-domains
- Create Domain aliases
- Monitor bandwidth on a per site basis by traffic type: http/https, pop3, SMTP, IMAP, ftp.
- Webalizer is included for traffic statistics. Quick view traffic history
- Manage webusers
- Manage multiple MySQL databases per site
- Create email, mail groups, autoresponders
- Create protected directories and assign users to them
- Protect the cgi-bin directory or subdirectories within it
- Log Rotation Management
- Upload and manage site files using File-Manager
- Switch entire domain ON/OFF
- Create and manage Mail lists
- Use Crontab Manager
- Manage Domain skeleton
- Includes a graphical file editor, with upload, download and attributes managers
- Java SSH client integrated in the control panel
- Branding and customization allowed
- Perform Domain backups to a repository, FTP server, or workstation
- Schedule domain backups on a Cron and preset backup files rotation
- Backup/Restore Utilities supports data migration between PSA servers
Mail Management
- Includes and supports mail aliases, autoresponders and vacation messages, forwarding, spam filters, mailing lists, POP3/IMAP servers
- Allows for Mail Users private secure login access
- Includes Web based email (IMP). Receive and review email anywhere, anytime, from any Web browser
- Set Mailbox quotas
- Dr.Web 4.33 anti-virus filtering
- SMTP authorization
- POP3 authorization, including APOP encrypted authentication
- Includes SpamAssassin 3 anti-SPAM email filtering
FTP Server
- FTP Traffic statistic
- FTP limits and traffic settings
Database Management
- Manage multiple MySQL databases simultaneously
- MySQL 5.0.32 supported
- PhpMyAdmin / PhpPGAdmin (Web-based database administration)
DNS
- Automate DNS setup when creating a new site with help of server-wide DNS templates
- Flexible editing and fine-tuning DNS records
- Quick DNS restoration supported
- Manage various timing parameters of the SOA (Start of Authority) record
Web Server
- Supports SSI, Suexec, log files, CGI-BIN, HTAccess, Custom error documents, Web users
- Multiple subdomain creation and types supported
- Support for scripting languages (Perl, Python, PHP (5.2), Perl / ASP)
- Any perl / php modules installed on server may be used for enhancing scripting capabilities
Logs and Stats
- Support file and log analysis, access to raw log files
- Webalizer web traffic reports
- Log files rotation
