What is Plesk?
 Developed for professional hosting service providers and resellers, Plesk is a comprehensive server management software platform built and developed by SWSoft. It is designed to install and manage all systems and applications for hosting on a single server or virtual server. It also allows system administrators to manage thousands of virtual hosts on a single machine - all with point-and-click simplicity.
With years of production use and development behind it, Plesk is considered the industry standard where the management of dedicated and shared single server environments is concerned. It delivers not only the stability demanded by Hosting Service Providers, but also the self-administration compatibility and extendable customer access (for email, domain control, reseller and server level administration) that has ensured its popularity amongst end users.
Plesk deploys and configures all of the systems you need to run a web server. Tiered login levels provide encrypted and secure access for system administrators and domain resellers, their clients and domain owners alike.
New for Plesk 8.0
 Plesk 8.0 for Linux/Unix marks a major milestone in the development of the software. The Plesk Desktop feature is a significant enhancement to the user interface. In this new release, the interface is designed to be task oriented and fully customizable. This feature has been created to meet the needs of any hosting customer, from non-technical users to advanced technical users.
Plesk Desktop allows all clients to have their own desktops with a customizable set of essential tasks and statistics. Any part of the desktop can be hidden or removed completely from the interface to make it cleaner and easier to use.
Plesk 8.0 and Virtuozzo are seamlessly integrated to provide Plesk users with an even more comprehensive solution. Plus, the new "smart" Autoinstaller V3 makes the installation and upgrade of thousands of servers fast, easy and efficient.
Major new features include:
Plesk™ Desktop |
Now administrators and clients have quick access to major management functions and they have immediate access to mission critical information and statistics. The task oriented design also allows administrators to create "favorites" and "shortcuts". |
Customizable Interface Templates |
In this new release, administrators can customize templates that can be assigned to individual users. This dynamic new features makes the interface straight forward, easy to understand and intuitive. |
Improved Virtuozzo Integration |
Now, Virtuozzo and Plesk are seamlessly integrated which allows hosting providers to manage more customers more efficiently. Virtuozzo lets you create isolated compartments, which allow you to handle customers in a more secure and reliable environment. |
Domain Aliases |
This new feature lets domain administrators set up alternative domain names which act as nicknames for websites and e-mail addresses. |
Watchdog 2 |
A new version of the software's system monitoring module which monitors diskspace, checks for security problems (Trojans), shows CPU/memory usage statistics and creates reports in case there are usage problems and much more. |
Acronis True Image Module |
Plesk now comes with a new ATIS module. Using this module, administrators can create server disk backup images without interrupting server operations and perform easy and fast recovery of the entire system. |
New Backup Utility |
The improved backup/restore utilities let
administrators backup and restore client accounts. Also, administrators can select which client's domains and information to backup/restore. Now domains can be completely restored with the properties they had during the backup. New Backup utilities allow administrators to restore from any version of Plesk which can be valuable for migration/upgrades. |
Autoinstaller V3 |
This improved feature lets administrators deploy and upgrade multiple servers in an efficient, cost effective manner. The new architecture allows for improved dependencies tracking and increased speed during installation/upgrade. All of this makes the support of new OSes simpler and easier. |
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Plesk™ Summary of Benefits:
- Efficient... Plesk software is uniquely designed to be highly scalable, allowing for the management and control of large numbers of accounts.
- Stable... Plesk is known within the Web Hosting industry to be extremely stable, while at the same time providing ultra high performance. Its blue-collar personality mixes well with its thoroughbred features and low resource use, making it the clear choice of the majority of Hosting Professionals.
- Reseller Ready... Plesk facilitates Multiple IP Name-Based Virtual Hosting. This allows system administrators to allocate system resources in uniquely isolated reselling accounts.
- Secure... Plesk is the only system software that facilitates OS security updates on the fly from external update services such as Red Hat'sT Up2date service and Red Carpet security service. A list of Security features enhances its appeal to the professional HSP.
- Scalable... Plesk is the only software that allows customised automated notifications to system users and an Interface for monitoring up to 50 servers from a single location.
- Easy to Use... Plesk is the only software that provides System Administrators and System Resellers a Global Change Interface for mass client update and configuration changes. Plesk™ provides five isolated tiers of facilitating for self-administration.
- Flexible... Plesk provides a unique event manager that allows system administrators to establish dual communication modes with 3rd party external programs. Plesk™ is WAP ready for professional dialup service and has localised multi-language support, plus a customisable interface to allow users to duplicate their professional brand. Custom utilities facilitate the automated creation of system accounts created online from the owner's Website or command line.
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