Cloud Platforms: Take a Full Control over Your Environment with Plesk

by Sergey BushikJuly 6, 2010

This blog post overviews the functionality of Plesk Cloud Management Platform, its advantages, and some challenges encountered.

The Parallels Plesk is a hosting automation control panel that allows a server administrator to set up new websites, reseller accounts, e-mail accounts, and DNS entries through a web-based interface.

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Plesk pros, cons, and recommended use

Pros

Plesk is considered to be one of the most stable and convenient control panels. It allows for managing multiple servers, related databases, and FTP from within a single interface.

Plesk provides multiple add-ons, such as Plesk Billing, Plesk Sitebuilder, and Plesk Expand, which interact with Plesk Panel and include functionality for billing, website building, and multiple server support.

Cons

Still, working with Plesk, one may encounter a number of issues, such as influence of backup and recovery strategies on the server usage, working with Plesk’s advanced features and configuration, as well as maintaining high performance in Linux environments.

Recommended use

Plesk Colud Management Platform may become a perfect fit for hosting providers and end users of hosting services.

Sergey Bushik is an accomplished software engineer with 12+ years of experience in designing and building secure, scalable, and highly performant solutions. He has vast experience in creating multi-tier and multi-layered applications. In addition, Sergey can boast of a solid background in web development. He is a Sun Certified Enterprise Architect, a frequent speaker and participant of international conferences dedicated to big data, as well as an author of several NoSQL\NewSQL benchmarks.