Parallels Plesk Control Panel 9'0 Beta Release Webinar

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Parallels Plesk Control Panel 9.0Beta Release
Webinar
Ravi Pimplaskar, Product Marketing Manager,
Service Provider Division Todd L Crumpler, Sales
Development Manager, Service Provider Division
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Agenda

• Release 9.0 New Features
• Whats in Beta
• Supported Platforms
• Upgrade Strategy
• Licensing
• Q/A
• Webinar Questions can be sent by emailing
  plesk9beta_at_parallels.com. Please use the word
  Webinar Question in the subject line.

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Whats New in Plesk 9 UI
New Vista-like skin New Home Page
Elements Navigation Improvements Object Context
Navigation
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Home Page Elements

• Improved statistics
• Mostly used commands are presented by icons
• Other commands are available from drop-down menu

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Navigation Improvements
Improved favorites last visited pages Easily
accessible from every screen to navigate to
needed pages
Search available from every page to fast access
to needed objects
New menu items for easy access to important
screens of control panel (Mail, Applications,
Settings)
Enhanced filtering on object lists Now its
possible to filter by status, resource usage,
ownership and other parameters
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Context Navigation Concept

• Plesk 9 understands when you are working in a
  specific context in the object hierarchy of
  Administrator Resellers Clients Domains
• You enter a context by selecting an appropriate
  object from the list or by finding it via the
  Search field in the left navigation bar
• The task page a user is on becomes the context
  and the home page for any new selection. Work
  quickly in different domains, clients, resellers,
  for any context you choose.
• All creation operations work within the current
  context Account
• Executing Create Domain from Administrator's
  Home Page will create a domain for Administrator
• Doing this from a Clients Home Page youll
  create a domain for this client

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Resellers

• New Reseller role
• Same functionality as Plesk Admin except for
  server management
• Ability to have its own Clients and Domains
• Separate billing management
• Customizable look and feel for control panel
  branding
• New Ability to Oversell Account Resources
• Flexible Resource Management different
  reactions to Overuse
• Full API Backward Compatibility Eliminating
  Upgrade Concerns

DOMAIN
DOMAIN
DOMAIN
DOMAIN
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Easy Account Migration
PLESK ADMIN
PLESK ADMIN
CLIENT
DOMAIN
Existing Clients can be easily migrated to
Resellersto get full benefits of the new role
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Resource Management

• Overselling Resources
• Administrators, Resellers, and Clients can now
  oversell their granted system resources, which
  means the total amount of limits distributed to
  their sub-accounts can exceed their own account
  limits
• Overusing Resources
• Administrator and Reseller can allow their
  clients exceeding the resource limits assigned to
  them
• Notification can be issued before a resource
  limit is reached

RESELLER 4 GB Disk Space
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Easy Account Migration
PLESK ADMIN
PLESK ADMIN
RESELLER
RESELLER
CLIENT
DOMAIN
DOMAIN
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Application Packaging Standard (APS) Catalog

• Browse through applications available on APS
  Publishing site
• Convenient grouping by application types
• Flexible search criteria
• Check for applications updates
• Install selected applications on Plesk server
• Push applications into Clients application pools

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Application Packaging Standard (APS) Catalog
Administrator browses applications grouped by
categories on APS Publishing site. Selects
desired applications and downloads them to server
Application Vault.
Administrator manages Application Vault by
assigning application access to the Resellers and
Clients. Assigned applications show up in
clients Application Pools
Clients select applications from their own
Application Pools and install them on Web sites.
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System Improvements

• PHP over CGI/FastCGI
• Faster execution of PHP scripts
• Safe execution of PHP scripts
• Choice of PHP version (Windows only)
• lighttpd for Control Panel server
• Easier configuration
• Increased Parallels Virtuozzo Container density
• Multiple MTA Options
• Postfix
• Multiple webmail on Unix
• _at_mail support

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Improved Multi-Level Backup/Restore
Each user can order full or partial backup within
his/her scope of visibility. The backup can
contain just Control Panel configuration or
include services content.
The backup can be stored locally, or outside the
Plesk server.
Feature Not Currently in Beta
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Plesk Billing

• Complete Hosting Solution
• Seamless end to end integration
• Sell, Provision, Manage hosting plans
• Full automation and management of domain
  registrations
• Hosting plans synchronized with provisioning
  templates
• Integrated GUI for service provider and clients
• Support for over 20 payment gateways
• UI Navigation between Control Panel and Billing

Feature Currently Not in Beta
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Unix Platforms
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Windows Platforms

• MS SQL 2008 Fully Supported

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Whats in Beta Download Today?

• UI Improvements
• Resellers
• APS Catalog
• PHP over CGI/FastCGI
• lighttpd for Control Panel server

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Upgrade Strategy

• Direct Upgrade from 7.5, 7.6 and 8.x versions
  will be possible
• Pre 7.5.x versions can be migrated by Plesk
  migration tools
• Business model is not changed during upgrade
• Resellers are not created
• Oversell / overuse modes are turned off
• No future upgrade from Beta to Production
• License Keys
• Beta supplied with unlimited test key activated
  till November 1st 2008.
• Production installation will upgrade your key
  automatically if you have active SUS subscription
• All acquired add-ons will be preserved

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Questions ?

• Webinar Questions can be sent via Webex Chat or
  by emailing plesk9beta_at_parallels.com. Please use
  the word Webinar Question in the subject line.
• Please send your testing feedback or questions to
  Plesk9beta_at_parallels.com at any time.
• In case you didn't have a chance to download and
  try the distribution, you may do it at
  http//www.parallels.com/en/download/plesk9beta/
  and fill in the feedback form at
  http//www.parallels.com/en/products/plesk9/beta/s
  urvey . If you encounter any problems, feel free
  to send a problem report to us by submitting it
  via http//www.parallels.com/en/products/plesk9/be
  ta/problemreport.