Plesk

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Parallels Plesk Control Panel
Plesk logo
Developed by Parallels, Inc.
Latest release 9 / December 2008
Operating system Windows, Linux and FreeBSD
Type Automation
License Proprietary
Website http://www.parallels.com/en/products/plesk/

The Parallels Plesk Control Panel software package is a commercial web hosting automation program. Originally released under the U.S. company Plesk Inc. and designed in Novosibirsk, Russia, Plesk became an SWsoft product when SWsoft acquired Plesk Inc. in July 2003.[1] Parallels Plesk Control Panel is now shipped under Parallels, Inc. since Swsoft rebranded itself as Parallels (an existing namebrand in its portfolio) in January 2008.[2] At that time, Plesk was rebranded as Parallels Plesk Control Panel.[3]

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[edit] Overview

Parallels Plesk Control Panel allows a server administrator to set up new websites, e-mail accounts, and DNS entries through a web-based interface. The administrator can create client and site templates, which predetermine resource allocation parameters for the domains and/or clients.

Parallels Plesk Control Panel for Linux/UNIX supports multiple POSIX platforms, including Red Hat Linux/Fedora, SUSE, Debian/Ubuntu and FreeBSD. Parallels Plesk Control Panel for Windows supports Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 operating systems.

Parallels Plesk Control Panel installs custom versions of or manages versions of MySQL and PostgreSQL databases (Microsoft SQL server and Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine under Windows), Tomcat Java server, ColdFusion server, as well as CounterStrike and Battlefield 1942 game servers.

[edit] Add-ons

Parallels Plesk Control Panel has several software packs that are not part of the main Parallels Plesk Control Panel code base. These add-ons are designed to fully interact with Parallels Plesk Control Panel. These Parallels Plesk Control Panel software packs include functionality for billing, website building, and multiple server support.

They include:

[edit] Version history

Version Released
Parallels Plesk Control Panel 9.0[4] [5] Dec 9, 2008
Parallels Plesk Control Panel 8.6[6] July 28, 2008
Parallels Plesk Control Panel 8.4[7] May 7, 2008
Plesk 8.3[8] December 26, 2007
Plesk 8.2.1[9] September 19, 2007
Plesk 8.1.1[10] March 27, 2007
Plesk 8.0.1[11] September 20, 2006
Plesk 7.6.1 (Windows only)[12] July 25, 2006
Plesk 7.5.4[13] November 15, 2005
Plesk 7[14] February 10, 2004
Plesk 6.5[15] November 20, 2003
Plesk 6[16] June 26, 2003

[edit] Reported Issues

[edit] Security

Some users have complained that Plesk is not secure in the sense of multihosting security since all virtual hosts are run under the same Apache user and share the same configuration.[17] However, in Plesk 7.5.6 for Windows and onward, all virtual hosts can run under their own worker process group, secured using their own respective IIS user. In Plesk for Linux, they cannot. Plesk also defaults to port 8443 for https applications, this clashes with both Microsoft ISA servers and Microsoft Small Business Servers, which disallow non standard ports for https.

[edit] Backup and restore

One shortcoming in Plesk's data backup and restore functionality is the mechanism by which Plesk stores backup files, using server disk space before uploading files to a separate FTP server. Because Plesk backup files can be quite large, this mechanism effectively limits the usable server storage space, forcing administrators to choose between not backing up data or leaving large amounts of storage unused.

[edit] Competing software

[edit] References

  1. ^ HostReview : Web Hosting News : SWsoft Acquires Plesk and Confixx to Create Global Hosting Software Powerhouse
  2. ^ SWsoft Parallels does Virtuozzo Containers 4.0 thing - Hypervisors are for the weak - Posted in Servers, 30th January 2008 20:59 GMT(By Austin Modine) The Register
  3. ^ SWsoft to change its name to Parallels - Date: December 11th, 2007 Author: Paul Mah (TechRepublic.com)
  4. ^ Parallels Plesk - Control Panel Software for Hosting
  5. ^ Parallels Plesk Panel 9 Released
  6. ^ Parallels Plesk - Control Panel Software for Hosting
  7. ^ Parallels Plesk - Control Panel Software for Hosting
  8. ^ Parallels Plesk - Control Panel Software for Hosting
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  12. ^ Parallels Plesk - Control Panel Software for Hosting
  13. ^ Parallels Plesk 7.5 Reloaded
  14. ^ Web Host Industry News | SWsoft Unveils Plesk 7, Deployed by 1&1
  15. ^ Web Host Industry News | SWsoft Releases Plesk 6.5 For Windows 2003
  16. ^ Web Host Industry News | SWsoft Launches Plesk Control Panel 6
  17. ^ Full Disclosure: PLESK hosting mass deface
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