Plesk provides four tiers of administration: admin, client, domain, and mail name user. All can perform tasks at remote locations via any standard Internet browser. The following capabilities exist for each type of user:
- System Administrator - Admin
System Management
- Hardware Reboot and/or Shutdown
- IP aliases management
- System time setting
- Server level statistics retrieval
- Master feature - allows to access and manage other networked Plesk servers
- Sessions management
- Services Management
- Set up server-wide mail limits
- Set up allowable mail relay capabilities and mail blockers
- Enable support for external mail abuse prevention system (MAPS)
- Set up DNS server default zone template
- Start, stop or restart system services
- Manage the Databases admin account
- Control Panel Management
- Co-brand using company logo and link
- Set up control panel access security and adjust sessions time settings
- Allow discounted domain registration and SSL certificate purchasing
- Set up screen paging options
- Set control panel language
- Customize appearance of your control panel by means of skins
- Add customizable buttons to the Domain Administration page
- Adjust the server-wide statistics calculation to meet your requirements
- Set up additional services
- Enable and configure the notification system, which will let you be aware of the ongoing events, such as creation of new client, new domain, and client quotas exceeded
- Set up system-wide client and domain templates which will simplify new client account and domain creation procedures with automatic assignment of all necessary restrictions
- Log various actions performed within the system
- Add and manage scheduled actions with Scheduler management capabilities
- Use skeletons for defining the structure of new virtual hosts
- Client Management
- Create, edit, and delete client accounts
- Allow reseller capabilities
- Set up client level limits on domain creation by means of configurable domain templates
- My.Plesk.Com Service Management
- Access to additional server tools purchasing
- Client Administrator
- Multiple Domain Management
- Create, edit, and delete domains and/or hosting accounts
- Set up FTP and/or anonymous FTP services
- Set up web server allowances
- Traffic limits
- Scripting - PHP, SSI, CGI, Perl, Python, ASP, and ASP.NET
- Microsoft FrontPage server extensions
- SSL support
- Set up domain level limits
- Create and manage domain templates, including settings for traffic and disk space limits
- Mail accounts
- User accounts
- Databases
- Manage DNS zones
- Back up/restore domains
- Manage mailing lists
- Manage log files and configure log rotation schedule
- Handle all files and directories in a more convenient way by means of File Manager
- Access Microsoft FrontPage directly from the control panel
- Set up domain tools
- Manage the client's IP pool
- Create and edit domain templates
- Use skeletons for defining the structure of new virtual hosts
- My.Plesk.Com Service Management
- Domain registration and management services
- SSL Certification purchasing and management services
- Access to additional domain tools purchase
- Control Panel Management
- Co-brand using company logo and link
- Set up screen paging options
- Set control panel language
- Customize control panel appearance with employing various skins
- Domain Administrator
- Mail Account Management
- Create, edit, and delete POP3 mail boxes/quotas
- Create, edit, and delete mail redirects
- Create, edit, and delete mail groups
- Create, edit, and delete multiple configurable autoresponders
- Utilize IMP webmail service
- Domain Report Management
- Review domain services
- Access domain statistics
- Web User Management
- Create, edit, and delete domain web users
- Set up scripting capabilities for web users
- Protected Directory Management
- Create, edit, and delete protected directories
- Set up access with SSL or standard http
- Manage directory users
- SSL Certificate Management
- Create CSR or self-signed certificate
- Install SSL certificate
- FTP Service Management
- Change passwords
- Utilize anonymous FTP service
- Mailing Lists Service Management
- Add new mailing lists
- Remove mailing lists
- Access the mailing list administration interface
- Enable/disable the mailing lists
- Enable/disable the mailing lists service
- Database Management
- Create, edit, and delete multiple databases
- Manage database users
- Direct access to databases through DB WebAdmin web interface
Deploy and manage Tomcat web applications
Manage log files and configure log rotation schedule
Handle files and directories by means of File Manager
Access Microsoft FrontPage from the control panel
Add and manage scheduled actions with Scheduler management capabilities
Back up/restore domains
- Mail Name Administrator
- Change mailbox password
- Adjust interface preferences
- Create, edit, and delete mail aliases
- Create, edit, and delete mail groups
- Create, edit, and delete multiple configurable autoresponders
- Enable/disable existing mail redirects on the domain