Frequently Asked questions
Plesk is a control panel used to manage your hosting account. The best part of Plesk is it’s easy to the learning curve. Both professionals and beginners find the Plesk a resourceful control panel. With its attractive graphical interface, Plesk makes it easy for you to manage your sites, databases, emails, files, and security.
Third-party apps such as WordPress Joomla, Drupal, OpenCart and much more, all become accessible from the dashboard. There is no need for downloading and uploading packages, as the Plesk makes them all available to install in a few clicks.
Plesk is available in multiple languages, so you can take the benefits of the features that Plesk provides without any language barriers.
Plesk offers a large number of features.
Few of them are:
- Upload and manage files
- Create user accounts for FTP
- Create and manage email accounts
- Add new domains and subdomains
- Create and manage databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL
- Backup and restore site files
- View web log files
- Manage DNS and other resources
There are many Plesk alternatives, but the direct competitor is cPanel.
cPanel has similar features as the Plesk, however, cPanel only works for Linux. While Plesk is for both Windows and Linux.
Open-source control panels that are alternative to Plesk are Zpanel, Zentyal, and Vesta control panel.
The main difference between Plesk and cPanel lies in their user interface and web servers they support. Plesk user interface is similar to the WordPress admin panel and supports both Linux & Windows servers. cPanel has a graphical interface and is compatible with only Linux web servers.
Customization is possible.
A professional webmaster can change the look of the panel to sync it more with the brand’s identity.
Surely. Plesk also offers Mobile monitoring.
You can monitor your server on the go from your mobile browser.
Installing Plesk is a simple and straight-forward process.
You can do it yourself, or our technical team will do it for you. Overall, you don’t have to worry about the installation process.
MantraCloud support team is a 24/7 present for you.
Our support people are just a few messages away from you, and always ready to solve your issues.