Different Types Of Control Panels | Plesk
Different Types Of Control Panels – Plesk
There is another important control panel which is used by many web designers, webmasters, and web developers across the world. It is the Plesk control panel. Although the cPanel control panel is the world’s most preferred control panel, the Plesk is gaining popularity, especially in Europe.
The latest version of Plesk control panel is considered as the most stable, very secure, and extremely reliable version that can be used by the Linux as well as the UNIX operating system. In case of the Plesk, the same control panel can be used for a number of operating systems that are available. This is because; the Plesk has different type of versions for the Linux as well as for the windows operating systems with slight changes.
Like the cPanel, the Plesk offers different useful and attractive features like managing different domain and sub domain names, e-mail accounts, easy file upload and download features, and many such exciting features. A user can easily create a web user account using Plesk. Plesk even helps in creating, editing and modifying a SQL or MYSQL database very efficiently.
Plesk is efficient in managing the website, whether it is hosted on a shared hosting, virtual private server hosting, or in a dedicated hosting environment. Experts believe that this control panel is more suitable for the dedicated hosting environment. Plesk control panel can also be used very efficiently on the Windows-based hosting environment. In fact, Plesk offers more stability and reliability in the Windows-based hosting environment that any other control panel for Windows.
Plesk can be a great tool for automating many relevant tasks. It, of course, also can be used for day-to-day website management tasks like monitoring the bandwidth, normal website administration tasks, creating domains and sub-domains easily, forwarding domains, secure SSL-certificate management tasks, migration management, installation of web applications, manage e-mail system, e-mail groups, server management, auto component update management, and auto-responder tasks. Plesk is an excellent website management tool, and is made especially for the more professional website management like e-commerce applications, chat, and forums management. Thus, Plesk is preferred more by the professionals than its more popular counterpart, cPanel.
All these features that are provided by the cPanel and Plesk are very useful and if used expertly, you can definitely make your website popular and a better place for your website’s visitors.
Plesk also has four levels of user login levels. They are the Administrator, Client, Domain Owner, and the Mail User.
The Administrator user level is the top server level login. It allows the administrator-level user to perform many important tasks, including managing the multiple servers management. The Client level login is the second-most important level login. The Administrator gives the Client the right to create domains. The third level login, the Domain Owner, can do single domain administration tasks, and the last level login, the Mail user, enables the user to perform e-mail administration tasks, including password management, setting anti-virus tunings, and setting spam filter.
The main feature is that the Plesk can be used by both the Windows and the Linux operating systems. It is a very useful feature for webmasters who use both these operating systems. Plesk is also more expensive than the popular cPanel control panel, chiefly because of this dual-role feature.
However, when compared to the Plesk, the cPanel is still the most preferred control panel due to the better user-friendly features that are available on cPanel, and also since there are no restrictions present unlike some other control panels. The cPanel is a powerful but very easily manageable web tool that can give your website a professional touch, which will help bring success to your website as well as to your online business.
Both the cPanel and Plesk are quite popular and have many exciting and advanced features compared to the many other types of control panels for website management. So, decide which control panel is more suitable for your use.
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