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Learn About Parallels Plesk Automation

Parallels Plesk Automation delivers business and technical value to your web hosting business to help you grow faster by providing a way to easily scale out your web hosting infrastructure. As a hosting company grows, it employs more and more servers. If each server is managed separately, this entails big maintenance costs and suboptimal server loads. Parallels Plesk Automation helps hosting providers solve these issues. Parallels Plesk Automation centralizes the management of services (like web hosting, mail, DNS, and other) that reside on a number of servers. Parallels Plesk Automation meets the needs of both providers maintaining just few servers and providers who supply hundreds of servers. The guidance and videos illustrate for you how Parallels Plesk Automation makes everything work.

Download the Technical Frequently Asked Questions here.

Hands-on Demo

Try the live demo for Parallels Plesk Automation. You will be able to walk through many of the administrative tasks. Note: the demo server is periodically re-installed and billing capability is turned off by default.

Username: admin
Password: setup

Try the Demo

Product Guides

Quick Start Guide for Hosting Providers

Learn Parallels Plesk Automation architecture, how to install the management node that oversees multiple servers, add service nodes for DNS, Apache Web Hosting, and Postfix Mail Server workloads, as well as ways to offer services to customers. Download PDF or Read guide online.

Deployment Guide

Learn how Parallels Plesk Automation works under the hood – including provisioning, management, and service nodes. Get started installing and accessing Parallels Plesk Automation. Deploy Web Hosting, infrastructure scaling out, and adding service nodes on demand based on your website’s workload requirements. Download PDF or Read guide online.

Operations Guide

Learn how to configure Service Nodes and DNS Services, set up business offers, and administer Parallels Plesk Automation including managing service templates, subscriptions, customer and reseller accounts, monitoring systems, as well as troubleshooting Parallels Plesk Automation. Download PDF or Read guide online.

Upgrade/Migration Guide

Get the low-down on preparing for a migration to Parallels Plesk Automation including moving tools, mail sync software, assimilating Panel Servers, and transferring data to Parallels Plesk Automation. Download PDF or Read guide online.

Branding Guide

Learn how to change appearance and branding settings for the Hosting Panel of Parallels Plesk Automation by means of custom themes. Download PDF or Read guide online.

Integration Guide

Learn how to integrate an external billing solution with Parallels Plesk Automation using the API. The guide provides details on how to use Parallels Plesk Automation to manage the main business objects: accounts and subscriptions.This guide is intended for hosting service providers who use Parallels Plesk Automation for offering their services and want to implement their own billing automation solution which should work in conjunction with Parallels Plesk Automation. Download PDF or Read guide online.

Parallels Plesk Automation is natively integrated with Parallels Business Automation Standard 4.3. In order to register the Parallels Plesk Automation Management Node in Parallels Business Automation Standard 4.3 or later, please follow instructions provided in the “Managing Parallels Automation Services” chapter of the Parallels Business Automation Standard Provider's Guide.

Video Tutorials

Attach Service Nodes

Learn how to add servers that will provide various hosting services including web, database and mail.

Configure IP Pools

Learn how to configure the allocation of IP addresses to resellers and customers.

Configure DNS Servers

This tutorial explains how to add a service node that will act as a dedicated DNS server.

Create a Customer Account

Learn how to create customer accounts and subscribe them to service plans.

Create a Shared Hosting Service Template

Learn how to create a service plan (also called a hosting template), and then to create an account and a subscription for a customer.

Install Additional Packages on Service Nodes

Learn how to install additional software components on existing service nodes.

Install Main License Keys

Learn how to install the two essential license keys on the management node for Parallels Plesk Automation and Parallels Plesk Panel.

Rebrand Hosting Panel

Learn how to set up a branded domain name for access to the hosting panel and customize the panel’s appearance for customers.

Sign Up New Resellers

Learn how to create reseller accounts and subscribe them to reseller service plans.

Hosting & Cloud Enablement

New - Parallels Plesk Automation

Introducing Free Support!

Parallels understands that fast problem resolution and uptime are both critically important to professional hosters. So, to prove this, we’re offering free support with Parallels Plesk Automation. This support offer covers all of your nodes (each of which require Parallels Plesk Panel Unlimited Dedicated licenses). This means Parallels will provide support for your Management Node as well as your Web Hosting and Mail nodes.

To learn more please read my blog.

Craig Bartholomew
Vice President Panel Products, Parallels