1. l E A D I N g M U lT I - P l AT F O R M C O N T R O l PA N E l
Datasheet
Plesk is a comprehensive control panel solution used Innovative Ease of Use
Plesk has an intuitive and attractive
by leading hosting providers worldwide for shared, interface which is now task oriented
and fully customizable with the Plesk
virtual, and dedicated hosting. Desktop feature. Plesk comes with
many additional skins and even gives
users the ability to design custom
Overview skins and manage them in the
Developed for professional hosting service providers, Plesk is comprehensive server browser-based interface.
management software designed to install and manage all systems and applications for
hosting on a single server. Created to empower growth and allow system administra- Highest Stability
tors to manage up to thousands of virtual hosts on a single machine. Plesk eliminates Plesk has been specifically designed
constraints to increasing per server profitability. to be the most stable and secure con-
trol panel available. Plesk has been
Plesk provides the optimal solution for service providers to increase revenue and cus- proven under fire managing 5 million
tomize their systems to meet the growing needs for self administration by their custom- plus domains globally and can sup-
ers. Plesk’s interface is localized into over a dozen languages, and users at different port thousands of accounts per server
levels can view and work in the system in multiple languages simultaneously. to maximize profitability.
Multi-Level Control Most Secure
Plesk contains new security measures,
There are four login levels in Plesk with each level having its appropriate roles
existing security features have been
and responsibilities:
improved. The software’s redesigned
Administrator – The highest individual server level login which enables hosting adminis- subsystem improves overall system
trators to quickly and easily set up and manage all system items. Multiple servers can be security.
centrally managed with the Master level login of Plesk Expand.
Extensive Platform Support
Client/Reseller – Second tier login account where the users are given domain creation
Plesk for UNIX and Windows now
rights from the System Administrator. Clients can powerfully administer groups of do-
have many common features, skins,
mains using a single login.
application packs, language packs
Domain Owner – Third tier for individual domain owner accounts with predetermined and documentation. Operating sys-
permission sets and interfaces for single domain administration. tems supported are RedHat, SuSE,
Fedora Core, FreeBSD, Debian, Cen-
Mail User – Individual mail account level which enables the user to log in to their own tOS, Ubuntu and Windows.
private interface to manage passwords, spam filters, anti-virus settings and more.
Comprehensive
PLESK ADMIN Plesk users will benefit from a new
level of integration with other SWsoft
Control
products, as well as third party appli-
Services cations. The completely customizable
Panel
“Application Vault” can manage
Account dozens of integrated applications
System including E-commerce, Chat, and
Settings
Bulletin Board. Plesk can also deliver
“pluggable” applications developed by
software vendors with its Application
RESELLER CLIENT Packaging Standard (APS) compliant
platform.
Fully Automated
DOMAIN 1 DOMAIN 2 DOMAIN N DOMAIN 1 DOMAIN N
With 100+ recent enhancements the
Mail
User
Sub
Domain
Mail
User
Sub
Domain Mail software delivers automated ease of
User management through features like key
Mail Sub Mail Sub auto-update mechanism, auto-com-
User Domain User Domain
ponent updater, migration manager
Mail and a Web-based installation for quick
User
deployment.

2. Integrated Application Support For Shared Hosting
Plesk’s tiered self-administration
and uniform multi-platform design
Plesk for Linux/UNIX Plesk for Windows is perfect for the management of a
shared hosting environment. The
Web Servers: Apache Web Servers: IIS software empowers providers to
Scripting: Apache ASP PHP Python,
, , Scripting: ASP .NET, ASP Perl, Python,
,
manage thousands of domains run-
SSI, CGI, Mod_Perl, Ruby, FastCGI SSI, CGI, PHP Miva
, ning reliably on highly scalable ar-
Web
More: Suexec, Restart Optimization, More: MS FrontPage, Performance
chitecture optimized for the reseller
Skeleton Directory, SSL, Management, Skeleton channel. Plesk is the solution that
ColdFusion Directory, SSL, ColdFusion meets both simple and complex
hosting system configuration needs
MTAs: Qmail MTAs: Merak Mail, SmarterMail, while allowing complete customiza-
MailEnable, MDaemon,
Web-based: Horde IMP hMailServer, CommuniGate Pro
tion for differentiation while reduc-
AntiSpam: SpamAssassin
ing costs.
Web-based: Horde IMP MailEnable, Ice Warp,
,
Mail SmarterMail, CommuniGate Pro
AntiVirus: DrWeb, Kaspersky For Virtual Hosting
Mailing List: Mailman Aliasing, Auto- AntiSpam: SpamAssassin
responses, Groups, User Access
Plesk delivers management power
AntiVirus: DrWeb, Kaspersky, ClamWin
in a small footprint making it an
ideal solution for Virtual Private
Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL Databases: MySQL, MSSQL, MS Access, Server hosting. Using Virtuozzo and
MS Excel Plesk, users can deploy templates
DB Management: phpMyAdmin,
phpPgMyAdmin, Secure Setup, Management: phpMyAdmin, ASP.NET of Plesk systems in seconds while
Multi-user/Multi-DB Enterprise Mgr, myLittleAdmin offering the complete isolation of
a dedicated server. Drag and Drop
Servers: ProFTPD Servers: MSFTP Gene6, Serv-U
, entire systems to new servers in
FTP Features: Anonymous FTP Upload
, Features: Anonymous FTP Upload
, seconds with little to no down-time.
Directory, FTP Throttling, File Directory, FTP Throttling, FTP Plesk and Virtuozzo are unsur-
Manager Subaccounts, File Manager passed in their ability to increase
ROI and generate revenue for the
Servers: BIND Servers: BIND, MSDNS, SimpleDNS
professional hosting provider.
Features: Master/Slave Management, Features: Master/Slave Management,
DNS Remote DNS, Load Balancing Remote DNS, Load Balancing For Dedicated Hosting
Support, Automated File Support, Automated File
Matching, DNS Recursion, Matching, DNS Recursion, Plesk’s RPM installation and modu-
SOA Settings Transfer Restriction, SOA Settings
lar design allow Dedicated Hosting
providers to meet the needs of tech
Apps: Webalizer, Plesk Traffic Manager, Apps: AWStats, SmarterStats, Urchin,
AWStats Webalizer, Plesk Traffic Manager
savvy customers. Plesk deploys
Stats
in minutes to quickly provide a
Features: Real Time Bandwidth, Custom Features: Real Time Bandwidth, Custom
Reports, Graphical User Reports, Graphical User
high performance solution that is
Breakdowns Breakdowns comprehensive yet inexpensive. A
complete Software Development
More
Numerous additional applications and tools supported in the above categories as well as Website Kit (SDK) with multiple backend
Creation, Backup, Firewall, Java, Migration Utilities, Extensive International Support and more. utilities delivers to service providers
and their customers more power to
customize their offerings as well as
an avenue for easy up-selling and
learn more at www.swsoft.com/plesk additions.
13755 sunrise valley drive rheinstrasse 95-97 www.swsoft.com
suite 600 64295 darmstadt
herndon, va 20171 germany
USA main +49 6151 42 996 0
main +1 703 815 5670 fax +49 6151 42 996 11
fax +1 703 815 5675