Parallels Plesk Panel

For the web site owner who prefers a Windows-IIS environment to host their site, Indiana Data Center provides hosting through the Parallels Plesk Panel.

See our Plesk hosting plans and pricing here.

Along with cPanel, Plesk is one of the most popular control panels for managing domains, websites, and email online and the graphical interface makes it simple to use. As well as a range of features for end users Plesk has an entire section for reseller accounts and for administration level accounts that make it a very useful tool for hosts as well as their customers.

A Windows User Friendly Interface
Make things simple with a logical and comprehensible interface. The Parallels Plesk Panel interface is task-oriented and fully customizable and now comes in an easy to comprehend Vista-like theme. Navigating through even the most complex and cumbersome tasks can be done quickly and efficiently even by non-technical users. The desktop shows you a number of useful statistics regarding your account. Disk space, traffic, mailboxes, and sub domains are listed and include your allowed limit as well as your current level.

With Plesk, you can manage all aspects of your domain such as:

• Password management for the control panel, FTP account and email accounts
• Set up web users
• Password protect directories
• Access to site files through the file manager
• Access and download log files
• Manage SSL certificates
• Set up and maintain MSSQL or MySQL databases
• File Backup and Restoration
• IIS Application Pool Management
• WYSIWYG and Code View Editors
• Check disk and bandwidth quotas, usage and statistics
• Web site traffic statistics
• Email account management

Email Account Management
Plesk also gives full mail management facilities to the user. Webmasters can create new mail accounts, amend existing account details, create auto responders, and view all mail on the webmail interface. All email accounts include spam filters and a virus scanner, which can be managed through the control panel.

SpamAssassin Anti-Spam Software
Include this add-on and eliminate spam. Plesk 8 includes an option to integrate the proven SpamAssassin anti-spam software into the control panel. A built-in configuration interface can be easily used to apply spam rules per server or per mailbox.

Database Creation Wizards
The create database wizard is certainly a welcome addition for any inexperienced Webmaster that has attempted to set up their own MS-SQL or MySQL database. The wizard, like all the Plesk wizards, is incredibly simple to use because of the intuitive graphical interface.

Plesk AntiVirus by Dr. Web
This award winning, server-level virus program filters and protects your site against today's nastiest worms, Trojans and viruses.

Check out the Plesk live online demo here: Plesk 9.0 Demo

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NOTE: Depending on your specific web hosting plan, some of the features in the Plesk demo may not be enabled for your account.