This pre-installed control panel software makes server administration easy. It automates system and site management tasks and provides a graphical user interface for administration. If you are a Web hosting reseller, Control Panels are a key selling point because they allow your customers to independently manage tasks such as adding E-Mail accounts, viewing statistics, and backup and restore functions.

Plesk 8 is the latest installment of the award-winning Webserver software formerly known as Plesk Server Administrator (PSA). Plesk 8 is the Professional Virtual or Physical Webserver management software specifically designed with the input of hundreds of professional Hosting Service Providers (HSP) to allow quick deployment and simplified management of a Linux based server.

Proven by years of professional production use, the Plesk server software is considered the industry standard in dedicated and shared single server environments. Plesk 8 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 8 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 8 is the perfect solution for both dedicated server and shared domain management, because it deploys and configures all of the systems you need to run a Webserver. Tiered login levels provide encrypted and secure access for system administrators and domain resellers, as well as their clients and domain owners.Plesk effectively lowers the threshold for non-IT personnel to use, create and manage a Linux based system.

Plesk 8 is ...

• Efficient ... Plesk 8 software is uniquely designed to host more accounts than its competition, creating the highest return on investment of any software in its class. You'll make more money per system using Plesk 8.
• Stable ... Plesk 8 is known within the Web Hosting Industry to be rock stable while providing ultra performance. Its blue-collar personality mixes well with its thoroughbred features and low resource use, making it the clear choice of the majority of Hosting Professionals.
• Reseller Ready ... Plesk 8 facilitates Multiple IP Name-Based Virtual Hosting. This allows system administrators to allocate system resources in uniquely isolated reselling accounts.
• Secure ... Plesk 8 is the only system software that facilitates OS security updates on the fly from external update services such as Red Hat's Up2date service and Red Carpet security service. A list of Security features enhances its appeal to the professional HSP.
• Scalable ... Plesk 8 is the only software that allows customized automated notifications to system users and an Interface for monitoring up to 50 servers from a single location.
• Easy to Use ... Plesk 8 is the only software that provides System Administrators and System Resellers a Global Change Interface for mass client update and configuration changes. Plesk 8 provides five isolated tiers of facilitating for self-administration.
• Flexible ... Plesk 8 provides a unique event manager that allows system administrators to establish dual communication modes with 3rd party external programs. Plesk 8 is WAP ready for professional dialup service and has localized multi-language support, plus a customizable interface to allow users to duplicate their professional brand. Custom utilities facilitate the automated creation of system accounts created online from the owner's Website or command line.

PLESK FEATURES

The Focus is on Profitability for the Hosting Professional.
Developed for Professional Web-Hosting Service Providers (HSP) and Corporate IT professionals, Plesk 8 provides the most complete and stable set of features in the industry. Designed to empower growth and allow system administrators to manage thousands of virtual hosts on a single machine, Plesk 8 breaks through the traditional constraints that limit per-server profitability. Plesk 8 provides the perfect solution for IT service providers to increase their client base while allowing them to customize their systems to meet their corporate customers growing needs for self-administration.

• Master Interface
• System Admin Interface
• Reseller Interface
• Domain Admin Interface
• E-Mail User Interface
• New Plesk 8 Features

Only Plesk gives Web-hosting professionals a Master level revenue opportunity. Now you can add resellers without the need for incremental additions in IT personnel - a boon to increasing your profitability. Plesk 8 users can differentiate their business through the Master level interface allowing self-administration across the entire value chain of hosting providers, resellers and domain owners. Plesk 8 consolidates your power while expanding your opportunities.

Master Interface ... This view-from-the-top administration interface allows System Administrators to manage multiple servers from a single console.

System Administrators Interface ... Plesk 8 provides the platform and the interface for an administrator to setup and create limitless pre-defined re-usable reseller and domain specifications and packages. The most powerful of the Interfaces give System Administrators complete graphical control of resellers, clients, domains, DNS, E-Mail, FTP, as well as the multiple languages and skins available for Plesk 8 users.

Reseller-Client Interface ... The quintessential power interface for account users on the system allowing resellers to work within their pre-defined plan limits set by the System Administrator to create and manage hundreds of domains from a single interface.

Domain Administration Interface ... This unique, easy-to-use login area allows individual non-technical domain owners to manage mail, create protected directories, setup anonymous and standard FTP accounts, manage SSL certificates, register domains, rotate log files, view graphical statistics, manage multiple databases and database users and utilize a Web-based email service. It is a domain management level of Plesk that clearly empowers domain owners to be self-reliant and less support-intensive.

Mail User Interface ... New to Plesk 8, this is a private secure mail-user interface that has been simplified to allow mail users to login and change their password, manage groups and aliases, and even create automated responses to incoming email.

Note: All login interfaces are completely customizable with skins, and offer multiple language support - as well as user level access to the Plesk Commerce Alliance portal called MyPlesk.Com.

NEW Plesk 8 FEATURES AND ENHANCEMENTS

• Multiple IP Name base hosting ... Put the power of flexibility in your reseller's hands! Now administrators, resellers and clients have the option of simultaneously hosting name-based accounts on Separate IP addresses within Plesk 8.
  
• "Mailman" Mail List Manager Option ... The Mailman open source mail list manager, manageable from the Plesk 8 interface, is included with installation.
• "Tomcat" Option ... Yes, Tomcat, the open source Java-enabling software, is included with installation and can be managed from the Plesk 8 interface.
• Mail User Login Interface ... Administrators, resellers, clients, and domain owners can give individual mail users their own interface for managing passwords, aliases, groups, autoresponders, and redirects.
• Apache Restart Interval Management ... Administrator-adjustable Apache restarts allow multiple changes to take effect batched on a chronological schedule.
• PostgresSQL Database Support ... Postgres Databases are supported and managed in the Plesk 8 interface including PhpPGMyAdmin for Postgres Database management.
• Multiple Admin, Reseller, and Client Level Simultaneous Logins ... Users can share login access and simultaneously allow more than one user to work in the interface.
• Event Manager ... System Administrators can call an Action to occur whenever an event occurs on the server.
• Global Changes Interface ... Administrators globally execute changes to GROUPS of client's or domain's preferences, limits and services in seconds. Clients can globally execute changes to GROUPS of domain's preferences, limits, services, and hosting configurations.
• Client Template Creation ... Administrators can create client types with limits and preferences for quick creation.
  
• Hard Limits on Disk Space Usage ... The administrator and reseller can set hard and soft limits on total disk space for domains. Limits are set in the domain template and managed in the physical hosting setup screen.
  
• Domain Level Backup and Restore ... The domain owner can manage a domain level backup in the Plesk 8 interface.
• Client or Domain Account Expiration ... Administrators can set periods of validity with client or domain owner notifications before expiration ,
  
• Fast Domain Renaming ... Administrators and resellers can rename a domain in the interface. Plesk 8 automatically updates all files for the domain.
  
• Python CGI Support ... This option for domain owner usage is selectable in the physical hosting setup.
• WAP Support ... Wireless access protocols are pre-installed for use on the system.
• New Faster TEXT mode interface ... The Plesk 8 interface is text-based and more efficient. Plesk 8 allow administrators to create text or graphics based skins.
• Cron Jobs Management ... The Plesk 8 interface allows the administrator to create Cron Jobs.
• Plesk 8 Users Log ... Administrators can log and store activity by users in the Plesk 8 interface. An excellent way to track what your users are doing on the server.
• Password Reminder System ... Forgot your Password to Plesk 8? No problem. With the new Password reminder feature for the server login page, administrators, resellers, clients, domain owners, and even mail users can retrieve their passwords directly from the software.
• Reseller & Client Summary Reports ... All new domain reporting and statistics functionality for administrators, resellers and clients.
  
• DNS restoration feature ... Administrators, resellers and clients can restore entire zone files based on the IP's in their pool.
• New Auto Installer Interface ... Our Auto-Installer walks you through the installation.
  
• Web User Disk Space Hard Limitation ... Now administrators can place a hard ceiling on disk space usage.
• Administrator and Reseller Skeleton Directory ... Upload and offer files to all your domains.
• Administrator Password Security ... Now administrators must change their default password when logging in the server for the first time.
• Key Information Screen ... Now administrators can quickly and easily get the properties of their Plesk 8-license key.
• IP Management Interface ... Manage Pools of IP's and tag them as exclusive or shared. Total flexibility in IP usage for administrators and their resellers
• RPM's Checking Script ... Now Plesk 8 offers the RPM installer to pull dependant files automatically.
• PhpPGMyAdmin Postgres Database Interface ... Database Manager for Postgres databases is included.
• Mail Alias Display on Mail Users Screen ... All levels of management can quickly expand their account to show their mail aliases.
• Semaphore Enhancement for FreeBSD Installations ... Increases system resources for the FreeBSD user.
• Localized Skin Selection ... All users at every level have the option of selecting the skin that they would like to view Plesk 8 with.
• Localized Language Selection ... Users at every level have the option of selecting the Language (English, Spanish, German, and Russian) that they would like to view Plesk 8 in.
• Enhanced Multi-Server Orientation ... Administrators have the ability to turn Mail Service and DNS service OFF to avoid external system conflict.
• Enhanced Domain Template Features ... New list of supported items available for the domain templates.
• Enhanced Notifications Management ... Administrators can select email addresses to send and set notifications for several new system events.
• Enhanced Domain Statistical Reports ...
• Enhanced Anonymous FTP Management ... Administrators can decide if they want to allow an IP based domain to use Anonymous FTP.
• Enhanced Shell Access Management ... New shell sandboxing prohibits users from viewing other domain home directories

• PLESK 8 – DEMOS