Depending on your web hosting package, here are some of the operations that you can perform in your Plesk (shown at Account > Permissions tab):
- DNS zone management. Manage resource records in the DNS zones of websites. DNS stands for Domain Name System. It is a service that enables web browsers to locate websites by domain names.
- Hosting settings management. Manage web hosting settings, such as custom web server settings or support for scripting languages.
- Common PHP settings management. Adjust common PHP settings (such as safe_mode, open_basedir, and so on) for your websites.
- Management of access to the server over SSH and Management of access to the server over Remote Desktop. Securely connect to the server to manage files and upload web content through a Secure Shell (Linux) or a Remote Desktop (Windows) connection.
- Anonymous FTP management. Set up a folder on the server which should be accessible to the Internet users over FTP protocol. This folder can have an address like, for example, ftp://downloads.example.com. This feature is called anonymous FTP because the users will not need to specify a username and password to browse, download, or upload files.
- Scheduler management. Schedule execution of programs or scripts in the server’s operating system.
- Spam filter management. Set custom settings for protection from unsolicited commercial email, also known as spam.
- Antivirus management. Set custom settings for protection from viruses and other malicious software that spreads itself through email.
- Backup and restoration of subscription data using the server storage. Use the Plesk’s Backup Manager tool to back up and restore subscription data: websites, mail accounts, databases, logs and statistics, custom error pages, mailing lists, SSL/TLS certificates and DNS information, and keep your backup files on the same server with Plesk.
- Backup and restoration of subscription data using an FTP storage. Use the Plesk’s Backup Manager tool to back up and restore subscription data: websites, mail accounts, databases, logs and statistics, custom error pages, mailing lists, SSL/TLS certificates and DNS information, and save your backup files to an FTP directory on a server that you specify.
- Backup and restoration of account data using the server storage. Use the Plesk’s Backup Manager tool to back up and restore subscription and account data, and use the storage on the Plesk server for keeping backups. Note that this type of backup is not available by default to prevent confusion with subscription backup (without account data).
- Backup and restoration of account data using an FTP storage. Use the Plesk’s Backup Manager tool to back up and restore subscription and account data, and use external FTP servers for storing backups. Note that this type of backup is not available by default to prevent confusion with subscription backup (without account data).
- Web statistics management. Set custom preferences for visitor statistics reports.
- Log rotation management. Set custom preferences for recycling (rotation) of web server logs. Web server records information about connections to your sites and errors occurred on attempts to retrieve missing files. You can use these log files for website debugging purposes.
- Access to Application Catalog. View and install applications on websites.
- Access to WordPress Toolkit. Manage WordPress instances installed on your websites using a single management interface.
- WordPress Toolkit security management. Manage the security options available in the WordPress Toolkit.
- Setup of potentially insecure web scripting options that override provider’s policy. This allows you to override the hosting security policy, if it is applied by the provider.
- Domains management. Set up and manage new websites.
- Subdomains management. Set up and manage new websites with addresses like forum.example.com.
- Domain aliases management. Set up and manage additional domain names for a site.
- Additional FTP accounts management. Set up and manage additional FTP accounts. To enable collaboration on website content, you can set up FTP accounts for other users and specify which directories of the site should be accessible to them.
- Java applications management. Install and manage Java applications distributed in WAR archives and obtained separately from third-party vendors or application developers.
- Ability to change mail settings. Manage mail server settings, such as select the webmail client, or turn the mail service for a domain on or off.
- Mailing lists management. Set up and manage mailing lists.
- Hosting performance settings management. Limit the bandwidth and number of connections to websites.
- Hard disk quota assignment. Adjust hard quotas on disk space if that is supported by your customer account.
- Database server selection. Select a database server for creating databases, if multiple database servers are available.
- Remote access for database users. Set up custom remote access control settings for database user accounts.
- Access to advanced operations: Website Copying. Copy the content of one of your websites to another website or to an FTP storage.
- Password-protected directories management. Protect one or more directories of your website with passwords. Visitors will be prompted for a password when they browse the protected directories.
- Ability to manage additional user accounts. Manage additional user accounts.