How to perform website backups in Plesk

How to perform website backups in Plesk

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to Plesk.

Now let’s learn how to backup our website.

Click the Backup Manager link here on the right.

From here you can run an instant backup of your site, or schedule backups to occur in the future.

To backup your site instantly, click Backup.

Decide what content you wish to backup, and whether it’s to be a full or incremental backup.

Configure your backup settings, then click OK.

That’s it! Your backup has begun.

If you want to setup scheduled backups, click Schedule.

Click to activate this backup task, then set the backup frequency.

Set how long to keep the backup files…

… then configure the rest of the backup settings, before clicking OK.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to backup your website in Plesk.

That’s it! The backup task was successfully scheduled, and backups will now occur automatically at the intervals chosen.

How to change your Plesk password

How to change your Plesk password

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to Plesk.

Now let’s learn how to change your Plesk password.

Click your login username here.

Then click Edit Profile.

This is the General tab, where you can change your email address or account password.

To change your password, enter and confirm a new password in these fields.

Then click OK.

That’s it! Your password has been changed, and you’ll need to use the new password when logging in from now on.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to change your Plesk password.

How to setup web users in Plesk

How to setup web users in Plesk

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to Plesk.

Now let’s learn how to setup web users.

Click the Web Users option.

You can host personal web pages in your account without them having their own domain name.

You do this by creating a new web user for the website.

Enter a username and password for this new web user.

Then select the options you want this web user to have.

Click OK.

That’s it! The new web user has been created, and they can now manage their own website under your domain.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to setup web users in Plesk.

How to edit your contact information in Plesk

How to edit your contact information in Plesk

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to Plesk.

Now let’s learn how to edit your contact information.

Click the Account tab.

Then click the My Profile button.

Click the Contact Details tab.

This is where you can edit your contact information in Plesk. Make any changes you want, then click OK.

That’s it! your contact information has been changed.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to edit your contact information.

When finished, click OK.

How to setup a database in Plesk

How to setup a database in Plesk

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to Plesk.

Now let’s learn how to setup a database.

Click the Databases option.

If your website uses custom data processing apps or is designed to generate web pages dynamically, you’ll likely need a database for storing and retrieving data.

To create a database, click Add Database.

Give the database a name, and select the related site.

Next create a user for the database, which is how Plesk will access the database.

When ready, click OK.

That’s it! The new database has been created and is ready for use.

To manage the database from within Plesk, click the phpMyAdmin link.

This is where you would go to manage your database.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to setup a database in Plesk.

How to create and manage user roles in Plesk

How to create and manage user roles in Plesk

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to Plesk.

Now let’s learn how to create and manage user roles.

Click the Users tab.

Then click the User Roles tab.

User roles allow you to configure how much access each type of user has to your account.

These are predefined user roles that are automatically created by Plesk. You can review and modify them, or you can create your own custom roles.

Use this button to create a new role.

Give this new role a name, and then grant access to the services you want these users to have access to.

When finished, click OK.

You can edit any of the user roles by clicking on their name…

That’s it! We’ve just created a new user role.

… then make the changes you want, and click OK when finished.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to create and manage user roles.

How to setup a WordPress site in Plesk

How to setup a WordPress site in Plesk

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to Plesk.

Now let’s learn how to setup a WordPress website.

If you see a WordPress link here on the right, you can click it… otherwise, click the Applications tab.

Then click WordPress.

From here you can learn more about the WordPress app… or just install it.

That’s it! WordPress has been installed, and we can now begin to manage our new website.

You can modify your WordPress settings, including changing your site name.

You can also manage WordPress Plugins…

… and manage WordPress Themes directly from here in Plesk.

You can even login to your WordPress admin, or change your admin password… from here in Plesk.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to setup a WordPress site in Plesk.

How to create and manage user accounts in Plesk

How to create and manage user accounts in Plesk

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to Plesk.

Now let’s learn how to create and manage user accounts.

Click the Users tab.

If you want to allow other users to access Plesk to manage websites, applications, or email under your domains, you need to create a user account for them.

To create a new user account, click Create User Account.

Enter a contact name, and an email address they’ll use to login to Plesk.

Choose a role for the new user.

Then choose which subscriptions to allow this user access to.

Assign the new user a password, then click OK.

To edit a user, simply click their name.

That’s it! The new user has been created.

Make whatever changes you want, then click OK.

Then click Change Settings.

Or select the user from the list here, then click Remove.

To remove a user account, you can either click the Remove button here…

Click Yes to confirm.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to create and manage user accounts.

How to login to Plesk

How to login to Plesk

To login to Plesk, first navigate to the Plesk login URL you were provided with.

Then enter your username and password.

If you’d like to change the interface language, you can do so here, provided there are additional languages available.

When ready, click Log in.

That’s it! You’re now logged in to your Plesk account, and can manage all the various aspects of your account.

When finished using Plesk, be sure to log out to prevent unauthorized users from gaining access.

To log out, hover over your username…

… then click Log out.

That’s it! You now know how to log in and out of Plesk.

How to create an email account in Plesk

How to create an email account in Plesk

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to Plesk.

Now let’s learn how to create an email account.

Click the Mail tab.

Enter the new email address you want to create.

Then click Create Email Address.

Then enter and confirm a password for the email account.

You can assign the amount of storage space to allow.

Enter a description, then click OK.

That’s it! A new email account has been created.

To edit the email account, simply click it’s name.

You can edit the email account’s password or mailbox quota from here.

The Forwarding tab is where you can setup email forwarding.

You can also create email aliases…

… and setup an auto-reply for your email accounts.

Click the Mail Settings tab.

This is where you can edit settings for all email accounts within your domain.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to create email accounts in Plesk.

How to create an email alias in Plesk

How to create an email alias in Plesk

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to Plesk.

Now let’s learn how to create an email alias.

Click the Mail tab.

Then click on the email address for which you want to create an alias.

Click the Email Aliases tab.

Now enter one or more email aliases for this email address.

Click OK to create the aliases.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to create email aliases in Plesk.

That’s it! Now when someone sends email to either admin@ or johnny@testsite.com, those emails will arrive in the john@testsite.com email account.

How to create a catchall email account in Plesk

How to create a catchall email account in Plesk

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to Plesk.

Now let’s learn how to create a catchall email account.

Click the Mail tab.

Then click the Mail Settings tab.

Select the domain for which you want to create a catchall email account, then click Mail for Non-Existent Users.

Click the Forward to address option, then enter the address you want all these emails to go to.

Then click OK.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to create a catchall email account in Plesk.

That’s it! Now when someone sends email to an address in this domain you haven’t setup, that email will go to john@testsite.com.

How to create an email forwarder in Plesk

How to create an email forwarder in Plesk

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to Plesk.

Now let’s learn how to create an email forwarder.

Click the Mail tab.

Select the email address for which you want to create a forwarder…

Then click the Forwarding tab.

Click to switch on mail forwarding, then enter the email address to forward emails to.

When finished, click OK.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to create an email forwarder in Plesk.

That’s it! Now when emails are sent to john@testsite.com, they’ll automatically be forwarded to johndoe@gmail.com as well.

How to enable auto-reply for an email account in Plesk

How to enable auto-reply for an email account in Plesk

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to Plesk.

Now let’s learn how to enable auto-reply for an email account.

Click the Mail tab.

Select the email address for which you want to setup an auto-reply.

Then click the Auto-Reply tab.

Click to switch on auto-reply, then complete the form.

If you also want the original message forwarded to another email, enter it in the Forward to field.

When ready, click OK.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to enable auto-reply for an email account in Plesk.

That’s it! Now when an email is sent to john@testsite.com, the auto-reply message will automatically be sent back to the sender.

How to find and install applications in Plesk

How to find and install applications in Plesk

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to Plesk.

Now let’s learn how to find and install third party applications.

Click the Applications tab.

You can use third party applications to add features to your website such as a blog, online store, photo gallery, or you can base your site entirely on a single application such as Joomla or WordPress.

To learn more about an app, simply click its name.

Featured Applications shows the most recommended and popular apps available for your website.

You can learn more about the application… and if you want to use it, you can install it from here.

Now click All Available Applications.

This section shows all the applications, both free and commercial, that are available to be installed.

Selecting a category will narrow your search… and you can also choose a sub-category.

We can now view all the applications related to content management on the web.

Let’s go through an example of installing an app.

That’s it! The application was installed, and you can see the application settings on this page.

In the Manage My Applications section, we can see which applications we’ve installed, and it’s from here that we can go to manage our installed applications.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to find and install third party applications in Plesk.

From here you can change any of your application settings…

Or remove the application from your account.

How to add a domain to your account in Plesk

How to add a domain to your account in Plesk

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to Plesk.

Now let’s learn how to add a domain to our account.

Click the Add Domain button.

Enter the new domain name you want to setup.

Choose the hosting type for this domain. In this case we want the domain to have it’s own website, so we’ll leave Website Hosting selected.

Choose whether you want the preferred domain to have the www prefix or not.

When ready, click OK.

That’s it! The new domain has been created.

To delete a domain, click the Remove Website icon here.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to add a domain to your account in Plesk.

How to manage DNS zones in Plesk

How to manage DNS zones in Plesk

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to Plesk.

Now let’s learn how to manage DNS zones.

Click the DNS Settings option.

From here you can switch off the DNS service…

Make the Plesk DNS server act as a slave for this zone, and use an external DNS zone instead…

Add a DNS zone record…

… or restore the default settings.

Let’s go ahead and add a new record.

Let’s add an A record, which lets us point a subdomain to an IP address.

The DNS record has been created, but you still have to click Update for the changes to go live.

That’s it! You can now see the new record we just added, here in the list of DNS records.

To remove a DNS record, simply select it, then click Remove.

Once again, click Update to make the changes live.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to manage DNS zones in Plesk.

How to add a domain forwarder in Plesk

How to add a domain forwarder in Plesk

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to Plesk.

Now let’s learn how to add a domain forwarder.

Click the Add Domain button.

Now enter the domain name you want as a forwarder.

In the Hosting Type section, click Forwarding.

Then enter the address you want the new domain name forwarded to… the target website.

Choose whether you want this to be a permanent or a temporary forwarder.

Then click OK when finished.

That’s it! The new domain forwarder has been created. Now when someone visits demo-domain.com, they will automatically be forwarded to testsite.com.

To delete this domain forwarder, simply click the Remove Website icon.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to add a domain forwarder in Plesk.

How to suspend websites in Plesk

How to suspend websites in Plesk

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to Plesk.

Now let’s learn how to suspend websites.

You may want to suspend a website within your Plesk account, if for example you are managing the website for a third party and they’ve stopped paying for your services.

To suspend a website, simply click the Suspend link for the website.

That’s it! The website has been suspended and will no longer display in a browser.

To unsuspend the website, click the Activate link.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to suspend and unsuspend websites in Plesk.

How to add a subdomain in Plesk

How to add a subdomain in Plesk

This demo assumes you’ve already logged in to Plesk.

Now let’s learn how to add a subdomain.

Click the Add Subdomain button.

Enter the subdomain name you want to create.

The document root folder is automatically created, which you can rename if you wish.

Click OK when ready.

This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to add a subdomain in Plesk.

That’s it! The new subdomain has been created, and you can manage it from here.