Plesk hosting control panel

Plesk control panel is very similar to another well-known hosting control panel, CPanel. Plesk offers all the features that CPanel does, and more.

For detailed technical infromation about Plesk's features, see the The official Plesk Documentation.

Access your Plesk control panel

find your domain's hosting controls

Log in to MyDot and click on Hosting & Domains in the main menu.

Click on Hosting Packages and then find the domain you want to log in to in your list of hosting packages.

Click CONTROLS under your chosen domain, and then click HOSTING PANEL. You will be redirected to your Plesk control panel.

Plesk features

Plesk main menu

Plesk is divided into sections, in the main menu on the left. Each menu item is covered in detail below. You can jump straight to the info you're interested in by clicking these quick links:

Quick links to useful info

Installing Wordpress

Installing Joomla

Installing Drupal

Viewing and interpreting your website hit stats

Websites & Domains

Plesk Hosting & Domains page

Access features and setting for the sites on your domain.

Settings

Plesk settings

See the screenshot to the right for the location of the Settings button. Here you can:

• Activate or deactivate your website
• Select the SSL certificate to use
• Activate or deactivate SSI support
• Activate or deactivate support for:
  • PHP
  • SSI
  • FastCGI
• Activate and select log interpreter for detailed web stats.

Applications

Manage Applications

All available applications

Plesk supports automated installation of a number of applications, including Content Management Systems, including:

• WordPress
• Joomla
• Drupal
• Moodle
• bbclone
• Coppermine
• gallery
• Magento
• osCommerce
• Prestashop
• concerete5
• phpBB
• typo3
• zenCart

Files

Plesk file manager

Manage your files directly in Plesk, including a simle graphical text editor. Plesk lets you upload new files, rename, move or delete files, and edit your site's code right in your browser. Saved changes are applied instantly.

Databases

Adding a database via Plesk

Statistics

Hosting usage stats

Plesk reports basic stats for your site in an easy-to-understand graphic layout.

If you need more detailed stats in an easy-to-read format, try Webalizer or AWStats.