In 2017, Plesk was acquired by British Oakley Capital Limited and has since been a part of WebPros, a global SaaS platform for server management. In December of the same year, Plesk became a separate business entity. In March 2015, Parallels renamed the service provider division to Odin. In 2003, Plesk was sold to SWSoft, which became Parallels in 2008. The hosting automation software was initially released by Plesk Inc. It is developed by Plesk International GmbH, with headquarters in Toronto, Canada and Schaffhausen, Switzerland, and offices in Barcelona, Spain, Cologne, Germany, Tokyo, Japan, and in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, Russia, where it was originally developed in 2000. Key features and solutions include the automation and management of domain names, email accounts, web applications, programming languages, databases, and infrastructure tasks to provide a ready-to-code environment and strong security across all layers and operating systems. Plesk's user management model is suitable for dedicated and shared hosting, allowing server administrators to set up new websites, reseller accounts, email accounts, and edit and create DNS entries through a web-based interface. Plesk is a commercial web hosting and server data center automation software with a control panel developed for Linux and Windows-based retail hosting service providers. Note: If you activated and did the installation of Plesk via Robot, the following adjustments are pre-configured automatically.Web hosting and data center automation software These are explained in more detail below.
Manually adjusting the DNS entry in DNS-Console Panel is therefore not necessary.įor the zone transfer functions to operate smoothly, you need to make a few adjustments in Plesk.
#Plesk support update
When you make changes to the DNS zones using Plesk, for example, after you create a subdomain, the Hetzner nameservers will automatically update with the new information. The Hetzner nameservers then automatically adjust the DNS zone data with the primary nameserver managed through Plesk.
In this case, when you create a DNS entry using DNS-Console Panel, you can select the option Secondary. When setting up a domain/subscription, Plesk automatically creates a DNS zone. usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/autoinstaller -select-release-current -install-component drweb Using the Hetzner name servers
#Plesk support activation code
In the Plesk panel, you can enter the activation code in Tools & Settings -> License Management (under “Plesk”) -> Install Key. You can order the license and retrieve it directly by going to the Plesk tab of the server on Robot.Īfter you order the license, the Plesk activation code will be available in the Plesk tab. (There is no software support for dedicated root servers.) You, the customer, need to install Plesk yourself. This is useful if, for example, you need to install on an OS we don't pre-install it with. Important note: This installation will erase all data on the drives in the server. You will get an email with the login details for both the OS and Plesk once the installation is complete. Then restart the server, and the installation will start automatically. If the server is already online, you can activate and install Plesk automatically (along with an OS) by going to the Plesk tab of the server on Robot. A number of these operating systems can be installed along with Plesk.Ĭurrently, Plesk can be pre-installed with the following operating systems: When you order a new server, you can select an operating system, which is then pre-installed on the server. You can install Plesk either automatically or manually, depending on your needs.
#Plesk support upgrade
If you have such a license and would like to upgrade to the new licensing model, please send a support request via Robot.
The licenses for Plesk Pack 30, Plesk Pack 100 and Plesk Pack unlimited, which were available up until July 24, 2014, are also valid for Plesk 12/Onyx/Obsidian. Overview of the Product Features Older Plesk licenses
There are three different licenses to choose from depending on the amount of domains that you need to manage with Plesk and which kinds of functions you need. We at Hetzner provide licenses for Plesk 12/Onyx/Obsidian.
#Plesk support how to
This article provides information about how to install and use this tool. Plesk Panel is a web hosting control panel.