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Plesk 6.0 Capabilities

Plesk provides four tiers of administration: admin, client, domain, and mail name user. All can perform tasks at remote locations via any standard Internet browser. The following capabilities exist for each type of user:

  • System Administrator - Admin

    • System Management

      • Hardware Reboot and/or Shutdown
      • IP aliases management
      • System time setting
      • Server level statistics retrieval
      • Master feature - allows to access and manage other networked Plesk servers

    • Services Management

      • Set up server-wide mail limits
      • Set up allowable mail relay capabilities and mail blockers
      • Enable external mail abuse prevention system (MAPS)
      • Set up DNS server default zone template
      • Start, stop or restart system services
      • Manage the PostgreSQL admin account

    • Control Panel Management

      • Co-brand using company logo and link
      • Set up control panel access security and adjust sessions time settings
      • Allow discounted domain registration and SSL certificate purchasing
      • Set up screen paging options
      • Set control panel language; currently English is set by default
      • Customize appearance of your control panel by means of skins
      • Add customizable buttons to the Domain Administration page
      • Adjust the server-wide statistics calculation to better suit your needs
      • Set up additional services
      • Enable and configure the notification system, which will let you be aware of the ongoing events, such as creation of new client, new domain, and client quotas exceeded
      • Set up system-wide client and domain templates which will simplify new client account and domain creation procedures with automatic assignment of all necessary restrictions
      • Log various actions performed within the system
      • Add and manage scheduled actions with crontab management capabilities
      • Use skeletons for defining the structure of new virtual hosts

    • Client Management

      • Create, edit, and delete system clients
      • Allow reseller capabilities
      • Set up client level limits on domain creation by means of configurable domain templates

    • My.Plesk.Com Service Management

      • Access to additional server tools purchasing

  • Client Administrator

    • Multiple Domain Management

      • Create, edit, and delete domains and/or hosting accounts
      • Set up FTP and/or anonymous FTP services
      • Set up web server allowances

        • Traffic limits
        • Scripting - PHP, SSI, CGI, mod_perl, mod_python, and/or Apache ASP
        • FrontPage server extensions
        • SSL support

      • Set up domain level limits

        • Create and manage domain templates, including settings for traffic and disk space limits
        • Mail accounts
        • User accounts
        • Databases
        • Manage DNS zones

      • Back up/restore domains
      • Manage mailing lists
      • Manage log files and configure log rotation schedule
      • Handle all files and directories in a more convenient way by means of File Manager
      • Access FrontPage directly from the control panel
      • Set up domain tools

        • Webalizer
        • IMP webmail

      • Manage the client's IP pool
      • Create and edit domain templates
      • Use skeletons for defining the structure of new virtual hosts

    • My.Plesk.Com Service Management

      • Domain registration and management services
      • SSL Certification purchasing and management services
      • Access to additional domain tools purchase

    • Control Panel Management

      • Co-brand using company logo and link
      • Set up screen paging options
      • Set control panel language
      • Customize control panel appearance with employing various skins

  • Domain Administrator

    • Mail Account Management

      • Create, edit, and delete POP3 mail boxes / quotas
      • Create, edit, and delete mail redirects
      • Create, edit, and delete mail groups
      • Create, edit, and delete multiple configurable autoresponders
      • Utilize IMP webmail service

    • Domain Report Management

      • Review domain services
      • Access domain statistics

    • Web User Management

      • Create, edit, and delete domain web users
      • Set up scripting capabilities for web users

    • Protected Directory Management

      • Create, edit, and delete protected directories
      • Set up access with SSL or standard http
      • Manage directory users

    • SSL Certificate Management

      • Create CSR or self-signed certificate
      • Install SSL certificate

    • FTP Service Management

      • Change passwords
      • Utilize anonymous FTP service

    • Mailing Lists Service Management

      • Add new mailing lists
      • Remove mailing lists
      • Access the mailing list administration interface
      • Enable/disable the mailing lists
      • Enable/disable the mailing lists service

    • Database Management

      • Create, edit, and delete multiple databases
      • Manage database users
      • Direct access to databases through PhpMyAdmin and PhpPGAdmin

    • Deploy and manage Tomcat web applications

    • Manage log files and configure log rotation schedule

    • Handle all files and directories in a more convenient way by means of File Manager

    • Access FrontPage (and FrontPage over SSL) directly from the control panel

    • Add and manage scheduled actions with crontab management capabilities

    • Back up/restore domains

  • Mail Name Administrator

    • Change mailbox password
    • Adjust interface preferences
    • Create, edit, and delete mail aliases
    • Create, edit, and delete mail groups
    • Create, edit, and delete multiple configurable autoresponders
    • Enable/disable existing mail redirects on the domain


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