About Plesk 7.5

Plesk is a complete hosting automation solution specifically designed to allow quick deployment and simplified management of a Windows based server. It delivers the stability demanded by Hosting Service Professionals while providing the self administration interfaces and end user access for mail, domain, reseller and server level administration.

Plesk auto-installs in minutes and lets non-technical personnel perform a wide variety of administrative tasks — from creating new e-mail accounts to managing entire domains — all with point-and-click simplicity.

Plesk 7.5 Capabilities

Plesk provides four tiers of administration: admin, client, domain, and mail name user. All can perform various tasks at remote locations via any standard Internet browser. Being a Client, you are provided with the following management capabilities:

• Create and manage domains and hosting accounts,
• Create and manage subdomains,
• Manage IP pool and SSL certificates,
• Configure DNS zone settings for domains,
• Use domain templates and virtual host skeletons designed to facilitate creation of domains,
• Customize your control panel environment with skins, logo, and custom hyperlinked buttons,
• Access domain registration and management services, SSL certificates and domain tools offered by MyPlesk.com,
• View domain reports and traffic usage statistics,
• Set up domain-level user access,
• Back up/restore domains,
• Manage mail accounts and mailing lists,
• Create, edit, and delete domain web users, manage scripting capabilities,
• Create, edit, and delete protected directories, manage directory users, set up access with SSL or standard http,
• Set up FTP services,
• Manage databases: create, edit, and delete multiple databases and manage database users,
• Deploy and manage site applications,
• Handle files and directories using File Manager,
• Access FrontPage (and FrontPage over SSL) directly from the control panel,
• Manage log files and configure log rotation options,
• Manage task scheduler,
• Manage user sessions,
• Use the Help Desk to get technical assistance.

Plesk Interface Specific Features

This section focuses on description of the specific features of Plesk web-based interface.

Navigation

The control panel interface is divided into two main parts. The navigation pane occupies the left part. In the right part you can operate particular Plesk component selected from the navigation pane.

• The Home shortcut opens your Home page (also referred to as the Client Home page), which gives you access to major administrative functions available for your account.

• The Sessions shortcut is used for managing currently active user sessions.

• The Help Desk shortcut takes you to the Help Desk system interface.

• The Log out shortcut ends your control panel session.

Pathbar

When you start your Plesk session, the path (chain of links) appears in the right part at the top of the screen. These links reflect your actual “location” within Plesk system. By clicking on the links, you can be one or more (depending on your “location”) levels up.

You can also use the Up Level button located at the upper right corner of the screen to go one level up or return to the previous screen.

Help

The Help shortcut located in the navigation pane provides you with context help. A help page is displayed in a separate window.

Below the Help shortcut is the area displaying a short context help tip. Basically, it provides a brief description of the current screen or operations available. When you hover the mouse pointer over a system element or status icon, it displays the additional information.

Working with Lists of Objects

You may have considerable number of objects within Plesk system. In order to facilitate working with the different lists of objects (for example, Lists of Domains), the special tools are provided: Search and Sorting.

To search in a list, enter a search pattern into the Search field, and click Search. All matching items will be displayed in a reduced list. To revert to the entire list of objects, click Show All.

To sort a list by a certain parameter in ascending or descending order, click on the parameter's title in the column heading. The order of sorting will be indicated by a small triangle displayed next to the parameter's title.