Viewing Resource Allotments and Hosting Features Included in Your Hosting Package
To view the IP addresses included in your hosting package, on your Home page, click the
IP Pool icon. Your IP addresses are listed and the following supplementary information is given:
- An icon in the S (Status) column shows
if your IP address is properly configured on the network interface. If your IP address was removed from the network interface by your provider, an icon will show
. - An icon in the T (Type) column shows
if you were allotted a dedicated IP address, and
if the address is shared among other customers of your service provider. A dedicated IP address is not used by other users, so you can use it to host either: - The Certificate column shows which SSL certificate (for what domain name) is tied to an IP address. See the section "Securing e-commerce transactions with Secure Sockets Layer encryption" for details.
- The Hosting column shows a number of web sites hosted on an IP address. To view the domain names of these web sites, click the number in the Hosting column.
To view the resource allotments for your account, on your Home page, click the
Limits icon. The resource allotments are shown as follows:
- Maximum number of domains. The total number of domain names/web sites you can host on the server. This includes web sites that you host on this server, and domain forwarders that point to web sites hosted on other servers. Domain aliases (additional domain names for a site hosted on this server) are not limited by this resource type.
- Maximum number of subdomains. The total number of subdomains that can be hosted for your sites.
- Disk space. The total amount of disk space in megabytes that can be occupied by your web sites and sites of your customers. It includes disk space occupied by all files related to all domains/web sites: web site contents, databases, applications, mailboxes, log files and backup files. This is the so-called soft quota: when it is exceeded, domain names and web sites are not suspended automatically, only the appropriate notices are sent to your and your provider's e-mail addresses and the resource overage is indicated by the icon
shown in the control panel to the left of your name (see the top of the right frame on your Home page). - Maximum amount of traffic. The amount of data in megabytes that can be transferred from your web sites during a month. Once the limit is reached, the appropriate notices are sent to your and your provider's e-mail addresses and the resource overage is indicated by the icon
shown in the control panel to the left of your name (see the top of the right frame on your Home page). - Maximum number of web users. The total number of personal web pages that you or your customers can host for other users. This service is mostly used in educational institutions that host non-commercial personal pages of their students and staff. These pages usually have web addresses like http://your-domain.com/~username. Refer to the Hosting Personal Web Pages on Your Web Server section for details.
- Maximum number of databases. The total number of databases that can be hosted on the server.
- Maximum number of mailboxes. The total number of mailboxes that can be hosted on the server.
- Mailbox quota. The limit on amount of disk space in kilobytes that can be allocated to each mailbox.
- Maximum number of mail forwarders. The total number of mail forwarders that can be set up on the server.
- Maximum number of mail autoresponders. The total number of automatic responses that can be set up on the server.
- Maximum number of mailing lists. The total number of mailing lists that can be hosted on the server. The mailing lists are served by the GNU Mailman software, which may or may not be installed on the server. If it is not installed and you or your customers would like to use it, ask your provider to install it.
- Maximum number of Java applications. The total number of Java applications or applets that can be hosted on the server.
- Validity period. The term of your hosting or reseller account. At the end of the term, your domains/web sites will be suspended, their Web, FTP and mail services will no longer be accessible to the Internet users, and domain owners will not be able to log in to their control panels.
To view the list of operations you can perform within your control panel, on your Home page, click the
Permissions icon. The permissions for operations are listed as follows:
- Domain creation. Shows whether you can host new domain names/web sites on the server.
- Physical hosting management. Shows whether you can fully control hosting accounts for your web sites. If it says No, then you can only change FTP password for accessing your web spaces.
- Management of shell access to the server. Shows whether you can access the server shell and allow other users to do so.
- Hard disk quota assignment. Shows whether you can set up the hard quotas on disk space allocated to your sites.
- Subdomains management. Shows whether you can set up, modify and remove subdomains.
- Domain aliases management. Shows whether you can set up additional alternative domain names for your web sites.
- Log rotation management. Shows whether you can adjust the cleanup and recycling of processed log files for your site.
- Anonymous FTP management. Shows whether you can have an FTP directory where all users could download and upload files without the need to enter login and password. A web site should reside on a dedicated IP address in order to use anonymous FTP service.
- Crontab management. Shows whether you can schedule tasks with the Crontab task scheduler. Scheduled tasks can be used for running scripts or utilities on schedule.
- DNS zone management. Shows whether you can manage the DNS zones of your domains.
- Java applications management. Shows whether you can install Java applications and applets on the web site through the control panel.
- Mailing lists management. Shows whether you can use mailing lists provided by the GNU Mailman software.
- Dr.Web antivirus management. Shows whether you can use server-side antivirus protection for filtering incoming and outgoing mail. The Dr.Web antivirus solution can filter 15 mailboxes for free. The customers who need antivirus protection for a larger number of mailboxes, can purchase a license at www.drweb.com.
- Backup and restore functions. Shows whether you can use the control panel's facilities to backup and restore your sites. Scheduled and on-demand backups are supported.
- User interface. Shows what type of Plesk control panel interface you can use - standard, desktop, or both.
- Desktop management. Shows whether you can customize and manage your desktop interface.
- Ability to use remote XML interface. Shows whether you can remotely manage web sites through custom applications. You may want to use the XML interface for developing custom applications integrated with your web site, which you could use, for instance, for automating setup of hosting accounts and provisioning of services for customers purchasing hosting services from your site. The remote XML interface operations are limited to setting up and removing domain names/web spaces on the server, modifying domain and web site related preferences and hosting services, retrieving information on domains. To learn more about using Plesk control panel's XML interface (also referred to as Plesk API RPC), please visit http://download1.swsoft.com/Plesk/Plesk7.5/Doc/plesk-7.5r-sdk-html/docs/plesk_agent/ch01.html.