Plesk Web Hosting explained
Plesk is a most popular control panel among hosting providers for shared, virtual and dedicated hosting. It facilitates installation and managing of necessary tools for the windows web hosting. Plesk is perfect for the windows based web hosting. Plesk is most reliable and stable control panel that is available for windows based web hosting. Plesk control panel simplifies management and administration of web site. Plesk control panel allows you to create sub domains, manage sites of dynamic content with new site builder, manage dedicated IPS, create standard or frame- forwarding domains, manage SSL certificate for domains. You can also be able to create and manage emails, and auto responders. Plesk also gives you the benefit to manage your web site through File Manager or managing web sites by means for Front Page web admin. You can also monitor the bandwidth usage of a web site. All windows web hosting plans offered by Square Brothers comes with Plesk as control panel.
Plesk Features
The Plesk control panel aims to the simplify various administrative processes. It lets you create and manage domains, install SSL certificates and even access the built-in site builder for putting your website together. You can perform a number of simple tasks such as setting up email accounts, webmail and autoresponders as well as more advanced functions like billing customers and blocking spam with greylisting. In addition, Plesk gives you the ability to manage files through a web-based file manager or by means of a FrontPage administrative panel. Whether its viewing a website’s bandwidth usage or managing customer accounts, it can all be done within the confinement of this extremely capable control panel. Plesk offers tremendous power, able to reduce operating costs and resource usage by automating a variety of tasks.
Control Levels
Plesk offers four levels of login, each with their own responsibilities and privileges. These levels include:
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Administrator : The highest level, this login allows the administrator control virtually every component of the system. Once logged in at this level, you can centrally manage multiple servers be it an HTTP web server like Apache or a database server like MySQL.
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Client : The client level login allows resellers to obtain creation rights from the system administrator.
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Domain : The third level login is designed for the website owner or end user. These permissions are what provides a user the ability to manage their hosting account.
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Mail User : The fourth level login is designated for individual mail accounts. Here, users can login and maintain their email accounts, change passwords, configure spam filters, change virus settings and more.
