Hosting levels in Plesk Control panel

Plesk is the most popular and comprehensive control panel which is widely used on windows hosting platform. You have different levels of logins under plesk control panel using which you can manage your shared, virtual and dedicated or small Business hosting account very effectively.  Plesk is designed in such a way that will help you to manage and administer your website easily. Using plesk as control panel you can save lot of time for managing your website hosting  accounts, you have many automated features using which service provider can reduce operating cost and resources thus increasing profit margin and customer satisfaction. Plesk offers you 4 different login levels viz Administrator, Client/Reseller, Domain Owner and Mail User. Each level have it’s own importance, role and responsibilities. Administrator level being the most highest level.

*) Administrator Level : – it’s the highest individual server level login usign which you as a website hosting account administrator to create and manage all system features. Using master level login of Plesk you can centrally manage multiple web hosting or Email hosting very effectively.

*) Client/Reseller Level :– It’s Second tier login account under which users can create domains and can manage them. System Administrator provides you all necessary rights which are required for creating and managing domains. you can easily administrator multiple domains using a single login under Client/reseller Level access of Plesk control panel.

*) Domain Owner Level :– It’s third tier of plesk controller. It’s an individual domain owner account with all predetermined permissions and interface which are given by system administrator. This type of control panel is mostly provided with Affordable hosting accounts.

*) Mail User :– Last but not the least Plesk login level specifically for managing individual Email hosting account. it’s fourth tire individual mail account using which user can log into their mail account and can manage and set passwords, spam filters and anti-virus for their mail account.  Mail User level of plesk login can be consider as most basic type of plesk login.

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Email Hosting-Mailing list using Plesk

E-mails are one of the most powerful feature we had in internet world, today emails have become a integral part of our daily routine. Today the number of emails send are much more then phone calls made around the world, thus you can see the importance of  email hosting. Thus for making most out of emails we have a feature called Mailing list. It’s a list made up of subscribers who have preferred emails as the medium of communication.  You can consider joining a ‘mailing list’ is a way of saying “Keep me informed”;
Usually emails are considered as one to one communication activity but in mailing list you get in touch with hundred/thousands of people at a given point of time.  Mailing list encourage us a greater and more varied amount of email activity as bothway communication to a full interactive open to public communication. You can restrict the list for private circles also. Usually emails are used for circulating announcements, newsletters and advertisements.  You can classified mailing list in 2 different categories ‘ One-Way and ‘Two-Way’ mailing lists.  In one-way mailing list either accepts or sends information, the user only interacting with the list server; and a two-way list creates interaction between sender and receiver.  One-way incoming mailing lists are still used for sending announcements, newsletter etc. E-mail Spam is another example of a one-way outgoing mailing list. Using two way mailing list users can interact with other subscribers to that mailing list. Its based on subscribers and all users involved in it are requested for signing up for this service. Such list subscription can be open or public. If its open/public then anyone can subscribe to it and if its private then restricted or known authorities can subscribe to it.  Almost all affordable web hosting service provider do support mailing list.

If you are worried about your business email accounts then Eukhost is the best option who keeps you hassle free. Eukhost provides managed Email Hosting accounts.

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This post was written by on November 23, 2009

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Change Login lock time in Plesk

By following the below steps you can simply change the login lock time in Plesk control panel:-

*) Open your browser and log in to your email hosting Plesk control panel as Admin

https://[IP-address]:8443

*) CLick on server from menu on left side.
*) Click on Login Settings under control panel section.
*)You can enter new login lock time in textbox for Session idle time or Invalid Login Lock time.
*) Click OK and that’s all.

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This post was written by on September 27, 2009

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Setting up a Domains using Plesk control panel

You can easily add domains to your server using Plesk that permits you to create multiple accounts.

In order to add new domains through Plesk control panel, follow the below steps :

1. Log in to your Plesk control Panel as admin.
2. Select domain which need to be added.
3. Click Add New Domain.
4. Now you will need to select client to which you want to create omain for and then click OK.
5. In Domain name field you will have to enter a valid doamin name.
6. You will have to select IP address which will be used to host this Domain.
7. If this domain need to be hosted then check “Proceed to hosting setup” check box.
8. finally click “OK”

That’s all, your domain is added to your hosting account.

If you are looking for affordable web hosting with Plesk control panel then you can go with Eukhost.  They provide fully managed hosting plans/server with 24×7 monitoring service.

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