Acquainting Yourself with the Plesk Interface

When you log in to Plesk in the Service Provider view, you see the Home page of the Server Administration panel with a summary on allocated and used resources.

The top banner area provides the following links:

• A link with your name. Click this if you need to update your contact information. Find out more about updating contact information in the section Managing Your Profile.
• Log out. This is where you close your session when you have finished working with Plesk.
• Help. This provides context-sensitive help with a search function.

The navigation pane on the left provides access to the following sets of functions:

• Home. This is where you start working with Plesk. On this page, you can see the following elements.
  • Overview. This widget contains information about your hosting package and provides links to the detailed information about available hosting resources and your permissions. The section Viewing Your Subscription Properties provides information that helps you understand the Plesk resources and learn how to view the set of resources that you can use or sell.
  • My Subscriptions. This is where you see a list of your own websites hosted on the Plesk server.
• Customers. This is where you perform operations on customer accounts. Particularly, you can accomplish the following tasks from this page:
  • Create, modify, suspend, unsuspend, and remove user accounts.
  • View traffic usage reports.
• Domains. This is where you view information about hosted websites and their domain names, and go to the Control Panel for managing them.
• Subscriptions. This is where you manage customer subscriptions to your services. Subscription is a way a customer obtains services and resources provided by a service plan.
• Service Plans. This is where you manage your service plans. Service plan is a set of resources and services provided to hosting service customers by means of subscriptions. There are also service plan add-ons that extend the amount of resources and services provided with a subscription.
• Tools & Utilities. This is where you configure and manage system services, and view resource usage statistics.
• Profile. This is where you fill in your contact information. Learn more about the contact information and other profile settings in the section Managing Your Profile.
• Change Password. This is where you change your password for logging in to the Server Administration Panel.
• Interface Preferences. This is where you set interface language and skin, prohibit multiple sessions under your login, and select the interface view. Learn more about changing Plesk appearance in the section Changing Branding and Interface Settings.

To see information about a tool or an item on the page, place the mouse pointer over an item without clicking it, and a small tooltip box appears with supplementary information regarding that item.

The main working area on the right provides access to the tools available for the section currently selected in the navigation pane. Additional operations are accessible from the More Actions menus.

To navigate through Plesk, you can use a path bar: a chain of links that appears in the right part of the screen, below the banner area.

To return to a previous screen, use the shortcuts in the path bar, or the Up Level icon in the upper-right corner of the screen.

To sort a list by a certain parameter in ascending or descending order, click on the parameter's title in the column heading. The order of sorting will be indicated by a small triangle displayed next to the parameter's title.