Plesk Archives

I love Plesk – it’s a work of art that makes my life easier. Rather than a “programme” as such, it’s a web interface that takes control of several thousand services on a web server and makes administering domains and hosting a breeze.

Since 2012 I’ve been a certified Parallels Plesk Automation Technician.

How to run Plesk on your local network and access virtual domains on your Mac

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Whether you’re running Plesk on a dedicated machine on your network or in a virtual environment, you’ll want to setup test domains and work with them as if they were live – just like it was running in a data centre. It’s not as easy as I thought, which is why I took some notes … Read more

How to create a Plesk Mirror

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When you deploy Plesk to various instances on your local network you can save the world (and yourself) from a lot of internet traffic by creating a local mirror. This is a duplicate of the original installer files needed to deploy Plesk which are downloaded once and can then be used from a machine on … Read more

List of Plesk Resources

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There is a lot of help available for Plesk which comes to you straight from the developers. A few years ago all we had was the Parallels Forums – that’s changed dramatically and if anything will only increase in the future. Here’s a list of sources I know to check for free support and updates … Read more

How to deploy Plesk 11.5 on Amazon EC2 (Linux)

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AWS LogoAmazon EC2 instances have seriously made my life a lot easier over the last year. And once you get the hang of the management console it’s actually not as scary as I always thought it would be 😉

I’d like to get away from annual contract bindings and “real” servers that could develop hardware faults. But if you wanted to run Plesk on top of CentOS then this was a bit of a headache – until Parallels launched their Plesk AMI on Amazon Marketpalce. With this release we get the convenience of running Plesk out of the box with a convenient one-click install!

I’ve just tried it and took some notes so I won’t forget. You can also take a peek at the KB Article provided by Parallels which also outlines this procedure:

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How to open the web interface ports for Plesk on CentOS

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After installing Parallels Plesk on a fresh server you may need to open ports 8443 and 8447 to access the web interface. These ports are not open by default. If your installation went fine but you can’t access Plesk in your browser via https://yourdomain.com:8443 then it’s likely that those ports aren’t open. Port 8443 is … Read more

How to add a Custom Button in Plesk

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Plesk-LogoPlesk allows you to create custom buttons to the control panel, complete with logo and URL. Since Plesk 11.5 you can even choose in which part of the panel your buttons shall be displayed.

To do this, login as administrator and head over to

  • Tools & Settings
  • under Panel Appearance, choose Custom Buttons
  • click Add Link to Service
  • give your button a Display Title and enter a URL
  • select an image (I find 100×100 works well)
  • select where you’d like the button to appear from the drop-down

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How to display an RSS Feed in Plesk

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One of the many new features in Plesk 11.5 is that you can customise the Panel appearance for your customers even more than before. For example, Parallels allow us to display any RSS Feed in the control panel in the right sidebar. Adding it isn’t as easy as it perhaps should be. In this article … Read more