Preface
Getting Started
Configuring Your Parallels Plesk Panel
Configuring and Maintaining Your Server
Serving Your Customers
Before You Start Providing Services To Your Customers
Managing User Accounts
Hosting Web Sites
Obtaining Domain Names
Setting Up Hosting Account for a Web Site
Creating and Publishing a Site
Previewing a Site
Configuring ASP.NET (Windows Hosting)
Setting PHP Version for a Domain (Windows Hosting)
Deploying Databases
Accessing Data From External Databases (Windows Hosting)
Configuring Data Source Names for Adobe ColdFusion (Windows Hosting)
Installing Applications
Using IIS Application Pool (Windows Hosting)
Securing Web Sites
Securing E-commerce Transactions with Secure Sockets Layer Encryption
Restricting Bandwidth Usage for Sites
Restricting the Amount of Simultaneous Connections to Sites
Protecting Sites From Bandwidth Stealing (Windows Hosting)
Restricting Access to Web Site's Resources with Password Protection
Protecting a Resource
Specifying Authorized Users
Unprotecting a Resource
Setting File and Directory Access Permissions (Linux Hosting)
Setting File and Directory Access Permissions (Windows Hosting)
Organizing Site Structure with Subdomains
Setting Up Additional Domain Names for a Site (Domain Aliases)
Using Virtual Directories (Windows Hosting)
Hosting Personal Web Pages on Your Web Server
Setting Up Anonymous FTP Access to the Server
Customizing Web Server Error Messages (Linux Hosting)
Customizing Web Server Error Messages (Windows Hosting)
Customizing DNS Zone Configuration for Domains
Serving Sites with External Domain Name Servers
Changing Web Hosting Type From Physical to Forwarding
Serving Domain Names for Sites Hosted on Other Servers (Domain Forwarding)
Transferring Domains Between User Accounts
Upgrading Web Site Hosting Accounts
Suspending and Unsuspending Web Sites
Removing Web Sites
Using E-mail Services
Using Help Desk for Resolving Your Customers' Issues
Transferring User Accounts, Domain Names and Web Sites from Other Hosting Platforms
Backing Up and Restoring Your Data
Viewing Statistics
Monitoring Connections to Control Panel and FTP Services
Accessing The Server Using Remote Desktop (Windows Hosting)
Logging Actions Performed by Your Customers in the Control Panel
Using Centralized Access to Your Numerous Parallels Plesk Panel Servers
Upgrading Your Control Panel
Appendix A. Advanced Features