Parallel Plesk Overview | Domain Hosting

Parallel Plesk Overview

A quick survey of web hosting companies reveal that Plesk is indeed utilized by a significant portion of web hosts that offer a third-party control panel rather than an in-house control panel, such as 1and1. The popularity of Plesk among web hosting companies is a positive aspect for the consumers since there will be a large community of Plesk users, and it also allows Parallels to continue development for their control panel. In addition, if you become familiar with Plesk and come to really like it, but you you aren’t so fond of your current web host, you’ll be able to easily find another web host that offers Plesk. This allows for minimal learning when switching host!

Plesk allows for a distinct login levels:

1. Administrator
2. Client/Reseller
3. Domain Owner
4. Mail user

The administrator is “the highest individual server level login which allows web hosting administrators to set-up and manage all system items” (www.parallels.com). If you are planning to host more than 1 domain and would like to create separate accounts to administer a particular domain, the client/reseller login level is required. If you’re planning to host a single domain, the Domain Owner level is sufficient. Read More