Plesk 8 Control Panel Features
Plesk 8, the latest release of the award-winning Plesk control panel designed by SWsoft, has been around for several years and installed on thousands of servers worldwide. Plesk has a large following and is known as a control panel you can count on for reliability and ease of use. Plesk has a fully redesigned professional interface which caters to all types of customers. With hosting providers and end users in mind Plesk is available on all our VPS hosting packages.
Plesk CP online demo
Click to access live demoAdministrator: Login: admin | Password: plesk
Client/Reseller: Login: client | Password: plesk
Domain Owner: Login: demo.swsoft.com | Password: plesk
Mail account: Login: mailuser@demo.swsoft.com | Password: plesk
Plesk system administration features
- Firewall configuration module
- Watchdog 2.0 module for monitoring of system services with optional notifications and automatic restart
- RkHunter tool for detection of rootkits included in Watchdog module
- Migration of accounts from external systems (cPanel, Ensim, Plesk, etc)
- Automated installation and upgrade of new Plesk components
- Add and remove skins from the control panel
- Configure conditional responses to events using Event Manager
- SPAM Filtering with SpamAssassin Software (requires PowerPack)
- 17 pre-installed 'skins' plus custom skin creation
- Customizable (click and install) Plesk "Application Vault" (requires PowerPack)
- Integrated server statistics (Disk Usage, Full Traffic Monitoring, System Uptime, RAM usage)
- Customizable Button creation with hyper linking and interface locale selection
- Private Folder Management
- Quick Configure and manage applications such as Apache and FTP
- Quick Backup and restore (Full System, Client level or a single domain)
- Pre-integrated Mail server or use a third-party mail solution
- Pre-integrated DNS or use a third-party solution
- Run, stop or restart services (Email, DNS, Apache, Stunnel, Tomcat etc)
- Control Panel Branding (upload a new logo or change it in a skin
- Standard Unix/Linux security scheme which is proved to be secure on thousands Unix/Linux servers all over the world
- Quick and flexible mail configuration (POP3, SMTP authorization, open and closed relaying, white and black lists, MAPS spam protection, SPF verification)
- Mail queue viewer with search function and ability to delete problematic messages
- Automated DNS Templating for new domains
- Manage SSL certificates for domains and subdomains
- Manage Control Panel Sessions (Idle time, login attempts etc.)
- Choose default skin and language, change Admin's skin and language
- Automate System Notifications (select notification events, select recipients, personalize the text, set expiration notifications and limits exceeded notifications)
- Pre-create and Automate Domain Parameters using Templates
- Register and use remote MySQL and PostgreSQL database servers as well as local servers
- Manage databases on local and remote database servers using WebAdmin under administrative account
- Create and Manage MySQL and PostgresSQL (requires PowerPack) databases
- Pre-create and Automated Client/Reseller Parameters using Templates
- Monitor and Log User's while they work using the Action Log Management Interface
- Set and Automate Chronological System tasks Server-wide and per domain
- Pre-create and Upload Custom Domain Skeleton directories
- Select and Restrict IP's from access to the Control Panel
Easy domains management
- Restrict the use of specific applications to specific users
- Bundle applications and server resources for targeted customer segments
- Automate new site deployment
- Template Domains and re-use them as default for quick Domain creation
- Track supported applications and allocated resources such as disk space, monthly bandwidth, number of webusers, mail user and other limits
- Create an unlimited number of targeted templates for Clients and Domains
- Bundle and meter top requested features such as multiple MySQL, PostgreSQL databases and webusers. Anonymous FTP access
- Choose different security options during site creation (allowing SSH access, scripting, allow scripting to webusers)
- Disable any button in Plesk interface and assign such customized Interface template to clients
- Assign customized Desktop presets to specific users
- Restrict access to Desktop or standard interface only
- Use International Characters in Domain names
- Perform Domain backups to a repository, FTP server, or workstation
- Schedule domain backups on a Cron and preset backup files rotation
- Preview websites before DNS propagation
- Create Sub-domains
- Add and Manage Site Applications to the Application Vault (requires PowerPack)
- 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
- Monitor bandwidth on a per site basis by traffic type: http/https, pop3, SMTP, IMAP, ftp, anonymous 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 (SSL and non-SSL), assign users to them
- Protect the cgi-bin directory or subdirectories within it
- Log Rotation Management
- Upload and manage site files using File-Manager
- Manage Anonymous FTP settings (bandwidth, incoming dir, simultaneous logins)
- Manage site using FrontPage Web-Admin
- Switch entire domain ON/OFF
- Create and manage Mail lists
- Manage Domain skeleton
- Create Domain aliases
Application Vault (included in PowerPack)
The Plesk Application Pack is a completely customizable repository of Site Applications giving Admins the ability to add, deploy, configure, and remove applications for any domain on the system. The Plesk 8.0 for Linux/Unix Application Pack comes standard with a extended group of applications including a Mambo CMS tool for creating and deploying dynamic web content.
Inclided applications
- post-Nuke (CMS)
- osCommerce Ecommerce software
- phpBB (bulletin board)
- gallery (picture gallery)
- phpBook (guestbook)
- bbClone (counter)
- gtChat (chat engine)
- AdvancedPoll (Poll system)
- AutoIndex (File statistics and file manager)
- b2evolution (Blog)
- Coppermine (Photo gallery)
- CSLH (Customer support)
- DocFAQ (FAQ system)
- openbiblio (Library )
- Owl (Knowledge base)
- phpAds (Banner system)
- phpBugTracker (PHP clone of Bugzilla)
- phpDig (Search engine)
- phpMoney (Account management)
- phpMyFamily (Genealogic tree)
- phpsurveyor (Surveys creation tool)
- phpWiki (Documentation management)
- pLog (Blog)
- Tellme (Network tools (whois, traceroute etc.))
- TUTOS (Work process organization)
- typo (CMS)
- UebiMiau (Webmail)
- WebCalendar (Calendar)
- WebShopmanager (Online store creator)
- WordPress (Publishing platform (blog))
- xrms (CRM)





