Does Plesk support Virtual servers or PHP?

If it doesnt directly support these features, are there ways to get these to work?

Neofree

Are you asking, "Can I set Plesk up on a VPS that I sign up for?" I'm not sure about the PHP question, unless I don't understand the question, PHP is installed with Plesk. I have a feeling you are asking something else though...

Oops. I meant to say SSH.

I am not trying to find an account with these features, rather I am setting up a hosting server with Plesk, and want to know if I can offer Virtual Private Servers, AND/OR SSH access.

Neofree

Plesk does not support VDS. I believe it does support SSH.

For information on VDS, search the archive of this forum, you should find plenty.

Peter

Plesk does not support telnet/SSH access for users.

You can't set up a VPS, but you can give decent control to someone, say 1GB of space and 20GB of transfer and let them dice it up for different packages, DNS control, etc. Still not a VPS.

Hello everyone.

Plesk does not support telnet/SSH access for users.

The above is not true each account you setup can indeed use SSH
if you activate it in shell doing the following:

chsh -s /bin/bash (ftp username)

You need to be root to o the above but it will allow you to offer
SSH to your clients on a plesk box.

Also note the security problems you open yourself up to if you
gove SSH to your clients.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Ray

Originally posted by CWDSolutions
Hello everyone.

The above is not true each account you setup can indeed use SSH
if you activate it in shell doing the following:

chsh -s /bin/bash (ftp username)

You need to be root to o the above but it will allow you to offer
SSH to your clients on a plesk box.

Also note the security problems you open yourself up to if you
gove SSH to your clients.

Just to be clear, there are DOZENS of security problems you open yourself up to by giving your clients direct BASH access.

This is highly not recommended.

All users will be able to read other users MySQL passwords out of PHP files, as well as the setup files of ALL programs installed on the box -- simply by browsing /usr/local/psa/*

If you want to give customers shell through telnet/SSH, do so with a jail/sandbox chroot shell (tcsh, etc).

There are plenty of HOW-TO's out there regarding this.