Plesk simplifies web management activities to align with the way infrastructure is used today for hosting websites and web applications.
Plesk is designed to help web administrators, application developers, web professionals, hosting service providers, and infrastructure providers create targeted solutions and:
Manage plans, subscriptions, accounts, and resellers
Create domains, sub-domains, and domain aliases
Set up email addresses, email forwarding, and email filters
Configure databases from a simple web interface
Install popular web applications like WordPress
Plesk 12 – The World’s #1 Web Server and Website Management Tool for Resellers
With Plesk 12, you can:
Add security and web server management to dedicated or virtual servers of any size
Target specific audiences using the anchor features that matter most to your customers, such as the WordPress toolkit and server-to-site security core
Increase your revenue opportunities by offering premium add-ons from Kaspersky, Atomicorp, CloudFlare, MagicSpam, Yola, and more
WordPress Mass-Management & Security Tools
Detect manual installations of WordPress by your customers
Run a vulnerability scan on any WordPress install on your server
Secure any WordPress installation with one-click hardening, based on results of vulnerability scan
Easily install, remove, activate/deactivate, and upgrade plug-ins & themes
Upgrade WordPress installations en masse
Better Server-to-Site Security, Built into the Core
Outbound Antispam with adjustable controls, granular reporting, and notifications to keep your servers from sending spam
Fail2ban integrated tightly with the system & service logs to scan for typical attack patterns and automatically ban malicious users
Intuitive security core interface to unban blocked and add trusted IPs
Integrated ModSecurity with support for several default rule sets, including special free rules from market leader, Atomic Corp
Use rule sets out of the box or customize to your specific needs
Widest Operating System Support of Any Control Panel
CentOS, Debian, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, CloudLinux, and openSUSE, Windows Server 2008, and 2008 R2, 2012 and 2012 R2
Extensive Windows Server support, including IIS and the ability to publish Microsoft WebMatrix projects to Plesk servers
Multilingual Support
Includes: English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Polish, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, and Korean
Virtualization Support
Support for most major virtualization technologies, including Virtuozzo, Server Bare Metal, VMware, Xen, KVM, and Microsoft Hyper-V
Fully optimized for Virtuozzo, offering the lowest memory consumption and highest server density available anywhere
Advanced Technologies
Full IPv6 dual-stack support that co-enables IPv4, plus Server Name Indication (SNI)
Improved web server performance with NGINX
Full PCI compliance, enabling you to confidently launch e-commerce applications
Developer SDK & Direct XML API Access
New Plesk SDK, allowing you to create new functionality in Plesk by integrating directly into the Plesk User Interface and interacting with all programming interfaces directly through PHP bindings
Direct XML API access, enabling you to tie Plesk to any external system, such as external billing solutions or domain registration software
Plesk 12 users include the following top worldwide hosters: