Plesk And Its Features
Plesk is a comprehensive control panel that can be used for a website hosting platform. Plesk brings everything you need. Plesk makes it easy for you to manage many aspects of your web hosting. The tools provide the features common to any control panel, along with some additional options. Plesk has a user-friendly graphical interface that brings all the necessary features for managing your web server into an interface that’s simple and intuitive.
You can schedule regular backups for your website and files, manage any databases that are part of your website, and monitor which parts of your website are using the most disk space. You can manage your domains, and add new domains and subdomains to your account. You can create new email addresses, monitor your inbox, and remove inactive email addresses. You can add and organize your website’s files within the control panel.
Features
Features For Everyone
Domain Add domains and subdomains and move them between subscriptions. Configure DNS and DNSSEC. Secure all your domains with the new SSL It! extension. | Horde & RoundCube webmail on Plesk for Linux / Windows. Automatically set up Outlook & Thunderbird clients with mail auto-discover plus SNI support. | Database Move databases between subscriptions and find out which database is linked to which website. Now with MariaDB as the database server for customer websites. | Files You can become more productive than ever before with the all-improved File Manager – Now including additional mass uploading and file search abilities. |
Application Catalog Customize your personal control panel and add even more value to Plesk, using a wide variety of third-party applications in the Plesk Application Catalog. | Backup Schedule incremental backups. Easily restore site/database changes with minimum free space using remote storage like S3, GDrive, OneDrive & more. | Extension Catalog Mix and match 100s of power extensions, from security to backup to developer tools. Install add-ons like SpeedKit, ImunifyAV, KernelCare or WordPress Toolkit. | Mobile Apps Want Plesk in your pocket when you’re on the go? Manage your business and servers wherever you are with Plesk Mobile. |
Website Builder Create fully responsive websites, online stores, and blogs with your choice of sitebuilders | Multi-Language Support With partners and customers scattered all over the world, Plesk is available in 32 languages | Self-Repair Tools Self-repair functions are built into Plesk to handle technical issues without support. Keep tabs on server health with Advanced Monitoring, plus Grafana charting. | Security Server security in the Plesk core and 3rd parties: OS, network, app, site. WebApp Firewall (ModSecurity) & Brute Force Protection (fail2ban) active out the box. |
Features For IT Administrator and Web Hosters
User Accounts Create individual user accounts with their own login credentials. Define User Roles and Subscriptions for each user or user group. | User Roles Enable and disable functionality & icons for individual users. Give different levels of access to different users on the same Subscription level. | Subscriptions Create a Subscription, with a defined set of resources and services associated with a Service Plan, and give users access as defined by the User Role. | Service Plans Create a service plan (hosting or reseller) that defines the allocation of your resources, such as how much disk space, bandwidth, and other features are offered to your customer. |
Mail Server Support By default, the Postfix mail server and Courier IMAP are installed on Plesk for Linux, and MailEnable on Plesk for Windows. | DKIM, SPF, and DMARC Protection Plesk supports DKIM, SPF, SRS, DMARC for validation of mail messages identity. | Supported Operating Systems The latest version of Plesk for Linux/Unix supports multiple platforms including Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat Linux and CloudLinux | Supported Virtualization The following virtualization platforms are supported. |
Database Management Scan, Repair, Report, Fix supported databases. | System Resource Usage Limits Limit the amount of system resources (CPU, RAM, Disk I/O) that can be used by a particular subscription. | PCI DSS Compliance out of the box Secure your server and achieve compliance with PCI DSS on a Linux server. | Task Scheduling Configure the time and date to run specific commands or tasks. |
System Updates Update any system packages present on the server either manually or automatically without having to open the console. | Plesk Migrator Migrations without the need to use the command line. Supported sources: cPanel, Confixx, DirectAdmin and more. |
Features For Developers
Ready to Code Environment Ready to code environment with PHP, Javascript, Perl, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, .NET, and Node.js support | NGINX Use NGINX as a reverse proxy or standalone to scale up the number of PHP processes as demand increases. | Git Integration Easy deployment of your websites by either pushing it to a local or by pulling from a remote one Git repo. | HTTP/2 Support! Take advantage of the speed of HTTP/2! |
Ruby Support Quickly and easily deploy Ruby apps on your domains. | Node.js Support Add Node.js applications to your websites with just a few clicks, install NPM packages, run scripts, edit the configuration files. | Docker Support Deploy and manage Docker containers locally and remotely. | DNSSEC Support Sign and unsign domain zones according to the DNSSEC specifications. |
Command Line Interface Perform operations on Plesk objects from the command line. | XML API The XML API protocol is designed to support interaction between Plesk and third-party software remotely. | SDK Customize your Plesk environment with a software development kit (SDK). | PHP Management Plesk provides full support for the PHP scripting language, including support for multiple PHP versions and handler types out of the box. |
Cloud Backup Cloud Backup to AWS S3, Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox. | Event handlers Configure notifications to trigger based on specific events. | Plesk Advisor Turn on SSL and HTTP/2 for all your websites at one click with Plesk Security Advisor. | Supported Cloud Platforms Plesk Onyx is available on AWS (incl. AWS Lightsail), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Alibaba, Vultr. |
Features For Web Designers And Digital Agencies
Developer Dashboard Dashboard for a master view of all your WordPress and Joomla! sites. | NGINX Enhance the performance of your WordPress sites with NGINX caching. | Server Health Monitor Health Monitor helps you keep your Plesk installation running smoothly by keeping track of the system resources’ usage on the server. | Reports View reports on resource usage by your resellers, customers, and websites. |
Dev Environments Ready-to-code online development platform with a code editor and advanced site preview with support for dynamic sites. | Easy Monitoring Parse web server logs and display relevant warnings and error messages in the Plesk interface. | WP Toolkit Mass-manage, secure, and automate your WordPress instances, plugins and themes. Simple staging, cloning, updating, caching, backup and more. | Joomla! Toolkit Mass-manage and one-click security for your Joomla! instances, extensions and templates. |
Branding Customizable skins are available. You can easily create your own skins, and re-brand the UI to your needs! |