1. Hosting Control Panels Allows users to manage their various hosted services in single place.  Creating webspaces  Creating FTP accounts  Creating email accounts  Managing databases  Server logs, bandwidth usage, Web statistics, file manager, Application installer, Email, SSL, Server security, email filtering.

2. Brief Overview  Plesk was originally released under the U.S. company Plesk Inc. and designed in Novosibirsk, Russia.  Plesk was acquired by SWSoft in July 2003.  SWSoft renamed themselves under the Paralels name in 2008.  Parallels is located at Russia.  Started with version 6 and the latest version is 11.

3. Parallels Panels Power User Panel Reboot server, Start/Stop services, View resource alerts. Server Administration Panel Create Resellers and customers, Create and assign subscriptions/domains, IP allocation, SSL certificate settings, database access, migrations, backups, server-wide email and spam settings, plus all Reseller abilities. Control panel Individual webspace,database, email, ftp, file manager etc to each account.

4. Domain Control Panel

5. Server Administration Panel

6. Power User Panel

7. Plesk Installation Download Auto Installer script compatible with the OS bit version as well as release version. Remove preinstalled packages like HTTP,PHP,MySQL. Set selinux disabled, yum should be available mkdir /root/plesk wget plesk_auto_installer_file_name chmod +x plesk_auto_installer_file_name./plesk_auto_installer_file_name

8. Plesk Autoinstaller

9. Plesk PSA Database Plesk uses a ‘psa’ database to store all the data and values. The /etc/psa/.psa.shadow file contains the MySQL admin password. mysql -uadmin -p`cat etc/psa/.psa.shadow` mysql> show databases; +-------------------------+ | Database | +-------------------------+ | information_schema | | mysql | | psa | +-------------------------+ mysql> use psa; mysql> show tables;

10. Backend files in Plesk Apache Apache configuration file : /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf Plesk httpd : /etc/httpd/conf.d/zz010_psa_httpd. conf Include conf: /etc/httpd/conf.d Startup script: /etc/init.d/httpd Apache main log files under : /var/log/httpd Domain Specific Logs: /var/www/vhosts/domain.tld/statisti cs/logs/error_log Plesk root directory : /usr/local/psa Version : /usr/local/psa/version Admin password is stored : /etc/psa/.psa.shadow (/usr/local/psa/bin/admin --show- password) Plesk configuration file : /etc/psa/psa.conf Startup script : /etc//init.d/plesk PHP Php configuration file : /etc/php.ini Php extension modules : /etc/php.d

11. Backend files in Plesk named Conf file located : /var/named/run- root/etc/named.conf DB record : /var/named/run- root/var/domain.com Log file : /var/log/messages Service to restart : /etc/init.d/named restart FTP Conf File: /etc/proftpd.conf Log File: /var/log/messages MySQL Databases are located at : /var/lib/mysql Configuration file : /etc/my.cnf Mysql log : /var/log/mysqld.log Mail Server Location of qmail directory : /var/qmail Mail directory of a domain : /var/qmail/mailnames/domain.c om Mail log : /var/log/maillog or /usr/local/psa/var/log/maillog

12. Plesk Backend Scripts Checking mail permissions /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/mchk mchk.exe Rebuilding/removing vhost /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/httpd mng / websrvmng Post upgrade repaire /usr/local/psa/bootstrapper/PP- Version- bootstrapper/bootstrapper.sh Auto-Installer /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/autoins taller.sh ai.exe Retrieving admin password /usr/local/psa/bin/admin -- show-password "%plesk_bin%\plesksrvclient" - get Updating Web statistics /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/statisti cs --calculate-one --domain- name=egglesscooking.com Switching Mail servers /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/autoin staller --select-release-current - -install-component postfix

13. Adding Apache Modules

14. Setting Cronjobs

15. Account Adding