What's new in Parallels Plesk 9?
Parallels Plesk 9 for Windows brings a whole suite of new features to further enhance the popular hsoting control panel software. All of AUSWEB's Windows VPS hosting solutions come with the option of installing Plesk 9 for only an additonal $29.95 per month. |
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Plesk provides four tiers of administration: admin, client, domain, and mail name user. All can perform various tasks at remote locations via any standard Internet browser. The following capabilities are provided: |
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Plesk users do not need to know the operating system in order to use Plesk. Also, the Plesk software is easy to install. Plesk must be installed on a clean server in one dedicated host. The installation procedure is automated, informing you of system changes and progress at each step. There are no complex commands to learn and no technical information to know. |
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This section focuses on description of the specific features of Plesk web-based interface. |
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To alleviate security concerns it is recommended that you use a security measure, allowing to restrict access to control panel with administrator privileges from certain IP's. You can make use of this function by creating a list of IP addresses to which a restriction policy will be applied, two modes are available: |
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Firewall is a protection measure aimed at prohibiting specific incoming network connections that may be used to compromise your server. Plesk Firewall operates on the base of rules, which specify parameters of connections, which are to be blocked or passed through. |
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You can set the following parameters for any user session in Plesk: |
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Choosing Application Pools Assignment Policy One of the new features of the IIS 6.0 web server is worker process isolation mode where each web site has the possibility to allocate a separate process pool for execution of its web applications. This way, malfunction in one application will not cause stopping of all the others. |
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Plesk allows to specify the Microsoft ASP.NET configuration settings that most commonly need to be customized in order for ASP.NET applications to function in a desirable way. You can set up the server-wide framework configuration that will be the default configuration for all domains registered in the system. The ASP.NET configuration can be adjusted for a certain domain as well (see the Setting Up ASP.NET Configuration section in the Administering Domains chapter). |
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You can set manually the server date and time through the interface and enable server time synchronization with the Network Time Protocol (NTP) server. To manage the system date and time settings, follow these steps: |
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You can configure the following server-wide mail system settings:
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As the administrator (server owner) you can get commissions on purchases made by your customers via My.Plesk.com service: domain registration, renewal, transfers, purchases of SSL certificates and third-party tools or services. To do this, you need to create a My.Plesk.com account and register your server (Plesk instance) with it. After that you will be able to track the purchases made by your customers via MPC and earn commissions. You can register multiple servers with a single My.Plesk.com account. |
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An SSL certificate represents a set of rules used when exchanging encrypted information between two computers. Certificates ensure secure communications; this is especially important when handling e-commerce transactions and other private transmittals. Only authorized users can access and read an encrypted data stream. |
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SSL stands for "Secure Socket Layer" and you can use this feature to protect all data exchanged between your Web site and the client. Shared SSL is a means of secure Web server access without requiring users to purchase a digital key. |
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You can set the following system-wide preferences: |
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You may wish to keep track of actions performed by various users in the system. All actions will be recorded in a log file that you will be able to download for viewing later on. The following system events can be logged: |
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The Event Manager is designed to help you organize data interchange between Plesk and external systems. It works the following way: you create a file to be executed upon a certain control panel event, and then create an event handler that triggers the event processing. You can assign several handlers to a single event. |
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You can configure Plesk so as to notify you or other control panel users by e-mail of the following system events: |
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