Viewing the List of Operations You Can Perform within Your Control Panel
To view the list of operations you can perform within your control panel, on your Home page, click Permissions. The permissions for operations are listed as follows:
- Access to control panel. Shows whether you can access the control panel for managing domains and sites.
- 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.
- System access management. Shows whether you can enable and disable access to the system through Remote Desktop.
- 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 are able to set up additional alternative domain names for web sites and allow users to do so.
- 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.
- FTP accounts management. Shows whether you can create and manage additional FTP accounts.
- Scheduler management. Shows whether you can schedule tasks with the task scheduler. Scheduled tasks can be used for running scripts or utilities on schedule.
- Domain limits adjustment. Shows whether you can distribute the resources given to you by your service provider between your domains.
- DNS zone management. Shows whether you can manage the DNS zones of your domains.
- Tomcat applications management. Shows whether you can install Tomcat 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.
- Spam filter management. Shows whether you can use spam filter provided by the SpamAssassin software.
- Antivirus management. Shows whether you can use server-side antivirus protection for filtering incoming and outgoing mail.
- Backup/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.
- Ability to use remote XML interface. Shows whether can remotely manage web sites through custom applications. The XML interface can be used for developing custom applications integrated with web sites, which could be used, for instance, for automating setup of hosting accounts and provisioning of services for customers purchasing hosting services from your reseller's 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.
- SiteBuilder. Shows whether you can use SiteBuilder for creating and editing your web sites.
- Hosting Perfomance Management. Shows whether you can change the hosting performance preferences for your domains.
- IIS Application Pool Management. Shows whether you can manage your IIS application pool.
- Web statistics management. Shows whether you can manage web statistics for your domains.
- Additional write/modify permissions management. Shows whether you can manage additional write/modify permissions for your domains. These permissions are required if your web applications are using a file-based database (like Jet) located in the root of
httpdocs
or httpsdocs
folders. Please note that selecting this option might seriously compromise the web site security. - Shared SSL management. Shows whether you can manage shared SSL for your domains.
- 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.