Plesk : File Manager

File Manager usign Plesk control panel :
Plesk provides you file manager tool usign which you can manage edit/view all of your data files stored onto your website hosting account. Plesk File manager allows you to manage files from open directories [ available for all] and also files from password protected directories [ private directories] easily.
Most basic difference between file manager feature and web directories features is that using web directories you are allows to manage only files and directories within your web space that are directly accessible by all computers [ open directories ].
Using file manager you can use different icons so as to differentiate between file and directory. You can easily add/remove files, directories within ‘parent’or ‘main’ directory which you have setup for your website. Plesk File manager also have a built in calculator using which you can calculate sizes of certain files or directories automatically which may not have been displayed in your Plesk File Manager,this tool will help you for certain reason if you wish to move or copy files or directories within other directories you can easily do so, this will ensure flexibility for moving files and directories within your website hosting account.


Thus using this feature you can easily manage file which are to be displayed and which are to be kept hidden for your visitors, this feature seems to be of great use for your website. If you wish to prevent certain directories to be accessible for whole world then you can move it under that particular directory. Thus you can easily manage your private data or
can remove required content from your website which you no longer want to display for your visitors to see.

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This post was written by on April 15, 2008

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Plesk Control Panel

Usually cPanel comes with Linux Hosting whereas you get Plesk as control panel if you opt for Windows dedicated server hosting. Plesk is most popular control panel widely used with Windows dedicated servers hosting plans.
Using Plesk you can manage all your hosting issues such including creating new accounts, mail, managing your account resources easily. Today you can even use Plesk on linux platform hence such compatibility with both platforms will help user if they want to move from one hosting platform to another they won’t endup having a new control panel for managing their new hosting account.

Using Plesk you can easily manage all hosting related issues, you can monitor your bandwidth consumption, diskspace usage, DNS entries, creating new emails and hosting accounts. You can easily protect your images from being hotlink so as to avoid yoru bandwidth being get ’stolen’ by other sites who links to your images/files of your site. If you require to change few PHP setting which are required for your websites to run smoothly then you can do it using your Plesk control panel. for some reason you need to restrict access to certain directories for your site which can be easily done through your Plesk control panel feature. You can also set scheduled task for your websites for automated updates for your site.
You can also manage your databases using Plesk, such as MySQL, MSSQL, MS Access etc…
Managing SSL certificate is also one of the important feature which is provided by Plesk control panel so that you can secure your site and can get trust of your clients.

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This post was written by on March 13, 2008

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