Plesk

Some basic notes on the Plesk control panel system

Basic features

• From Russia
• Available for Linux and Windows servers
• Implemented in PHP

User Contributed Scripts

1.script to extract mailname password: http://gnusys.net/plesk-script-to-extract-mailname-password/

2.Scripts Available with Plesk Control Panel

Known issues

• Menus somewhat obscure
• Documentation weak
• Allows configuring some, but not all, Linux features
• Defaults reasonably secure but non-obvious
  • Server firewall will not allow incoming passive FTP by default.
  • User cannot write to user's own home directory, which breaks some applications.