Plesk Control Panel Features

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.

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Admin Features | Domain management | Application vault

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)