Introduction to Plesk Administration
Plesk is a web server control panel, and is developed and maintained by Parallels. Its primary purpose is to manage servers that provide web hosting services. Managed services include:
- HTTP / HTTPS (Apache)
- SMTP (qmail or Postfix)
- POP3 / IMAP (Courier)
- DNS (BIND / named)
- SQL (MySQL and/or PostgreSQL)
- Webmail (Horde and/or Atmail)
- SpamAssassin
- Tomcat
The purpose of this tutorial is to cover the basics of using Plesk 10 for simple web hosting of a small number of domains, and it should also be valid for Plesk 11 as well.
In this tutorial, we will cover all of the necessary steps to set up a new server to host a single secured WordPress site with email, and we will also discuss several administrative tasks such as setting account limits and taking backups. This tutorial does not cover reselling or Customer and Business Manager, nor does it discuss Plesk administration in any depth beyond what is needed to set up websites.
Table of Contents
- Introducing: The Admin Panel
- Modifying a Subscription
- Introducing: The Control Panel
- A Short Detour: The Account Tab
- Configuring Email Accounts
- The Application Vault
- File Management and Remote File Access
- Managing Domains
- Adding a Second Domain
- Changing DNS Records
- Creating Backups
- Creating a Manual Backup
- Setting up Automated Backups
- Managing Databases
- Creating a Database
- Adding a user to a database
- Other Operations
- Secure Your Sites (SSL)
- Web Hosting Access
- Using SSH
- Congratulations and More Resources
Introduction to Plesk Administration