Features of Plesk control panel-

1) Tools and features ;

Edit- Edit and update your contact information details.

Report-Displays a summary of the current user’s account information.

Preferences- User can change their user interface skin.

Permissions-Allows the user to change their user interface skin.

Limits- View the traffic, disk space, domain and other limits of the account.

IP pool- View the current IP’s in use. Most of the users have 1 at a time.

Logo setup- Customize the logo at the top left of the control panel.

Custom Buttons- Create, edit and delete the custom buttons in the control panel.

Add new domain- Allows the user to create a new domain/account in the control panel.

Domain templates- Create edit and delete domain templates.

Current traffic- Allows to view the summary of traffic stastistics.

Register- Register a new domain name.

Manage- Manage the registered domains.

2) Domains ;

Report- Displays a summary of the domains use information.

Limits- View the traffic, disk space, domain and other limits of the account.

Domian admistrator- Configure new domain user.

Custom buttons- Create, edit and delete the custom buttons in the control panel.

3) Email and other services ;

Mail- Manage email accounts, mail boxes, mail names, mail redirects, mail groups, autoresponders.

DNS- Administrator DNS records for the domain. users may add A records and restore the dns zone to the template settings.

Databases- Add, manage and delete MySQL databases. The number of databases are according to your hosting account.

Certificates-Add and manage the SSL certificates. SSL certificates are used for secured website browsing.

4) Hosting ;

Setup- Setup and administer web hosting for a domain.

Delete- Delete the current hosting account.

Web users- setup some other web users for the domain.

Directories- Create SSL or non-SSL password protected databases.

Anonymous FTP- Setup anonymous FTP for the domain.

Log manager- View and manage log files and other options related to it.

File manager- Allows you to navigate and manipulate server file system.

FP webadmin- Accesses the front page extensions administration tool for the site you have selected.

FP SSL webadmin- Accesses the front page extensions administration tool for the site you have selected.

Crontab- View, add and modify scheduled tasks for your systems.

Mambo CMS- This is a feature rich content management system.

Application vault- Allows the user to install or remove any set of free applications through the control panel.

Site preview- Allows the user to preview the current domain in the browser.

5) Some other features ;

Billing management system- This feature allows you to view the invoices to be paid off, update your credit card, change the personel information and make a payment.

Get traffic toolbox- Click to install or access an existing information of the existing tool box.

Internet marketing course- Free internet marketing course.

Keyword verification tool- This is a free verification tool that allows you to check whether your site is listed in the first three pages of the search engine for a specific keyword.

Link popularity checker- This is a free tool that informs you about the number of pages on the internet which have the link of your website.

Meta tag generator- This tool helps the user to add meta tags to your website.

Search engine saturation tool- This tool will inform you about the number of pages of your domain that are listed in the search engines.

Mail box Cop Spam/Virus Filter-This is an automatic feature which filters the Spams and checks for Viruses.

Stats tracker- This feature will provide the details of the website traffic to the user.

Submit site to search engines- This enables submissions to search engines easily.

These are some of the features of Plesk. Plesk control panel also has some other features which allow the user to manage server easily and this is the reason that many of the users prefer Plesk as control panel when they use Windows VPS. Plesk control panel also works with Linux VPS and this is yet another benefit of the Plesk control panel. As VPS are the servers which are provided with the dedicated environment, these servers are also provided with a lot of resources and features and without the control panel it is very difficult to manage the server unless and until you have excellent technical skills. All the servers are provided with the control panel and it is recommended to have the control panel as they will allow you to manage your server properly and save a lot of time. Plesk control panel has some licensing fees and you have to pay the fees to use Plesk control panel. But, as you are getting so many features with Plesk, it is not a bad deal to pay for it.

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