Editing Crontab in Plesk

Within Crontab, you will notice a list of system users within the preferences section, select the name of the user for whom you wish to manage the crontab settings, and have, should you choose edit the email settings and have the crontab messages sent to the specified email address.

Data backup through Plesk

“At the end of the day the reasons for backup are many and varied it could be as simple as you doing something wrong, and you wish to correct it or as malicious as hackers targeting your site, getting through and deleting/ modifying your data. At the end of the data, it doesn’t take that long, and it is a worthwhile tool for ease of mind!”

Setting up FTP accounts through Plesk

” …setting up an FTP account you are able to automate site/ account backups on a prescheduled or regular basis, as well as backing up your site/ account data manually to, for example, your own PC…”

The Web Application Vault within Plesk — A.K.A. Plesk’s hidden gem!

“By using Plesk’s Application Vault, you are able to transfer your site and may even be able to start selling products or services through your site thus making a return on your investment and ofset the costs of your web hosting package”

Managing Frontpage extensions in Plesk

What are Frontpage extensions?
Frontpage extensions are used to allow people who have built their site in frontpage (a now obsolete Microsoft WYSIWYG site builder and editor) to run correctly if frontpage specific functions have been used during the development of the site.
These provide website site builders features and addable functions that can be inserted to [...]

Managing subdomains through Plesk

“Search engines view subdomains as search engine friendly because they view them as separate domain names and thus rate them above directories”

SSL Certifications and Plesk

“Through Plesk you are able to code and install SSL Certificates within your website hosting account without the need, should you wish, to go through your hosting provider or server administrator”

Managing databases through Plesk

“Plesk provides you the ability to create and host multiple databases across many different platforms”

Controlling DNS Settings within Plesk

“Plesk allows you to manage your DNS settings allowing you to control all the DNS settings you have attached to your hosted domain name within your Plesk website hosting account.”

The site preview function within Plesk

“Plesk Site Preview is an excellent feature of Plesk that allows developers to fully view, interact and test their site before it is live and generally viewable, just as if the site is fully hosted under a real domain within a proper environment”

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