Parallels Plesk Panel 10 – Marketing Preview #3

This Marketing Preview version should be considered as incomplete and is not production quality software. The software should only be used to evaluate new features and functionalities as defined in the documentation below. Parallels reserves the right to add, drop or change features for the production version of Parallels Plesk Panel 10, currently targeted for Q4 2010. Upon evaluation, the user should fill out the Evaluation Survey (button above) to document his/her feedback. If bugs or anomalies are found, please use the Bug Report form (button above).

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The following documentation is provided as assistance when evaluating an early release version of Parallels Plesk Panel 10.

Parallels Plesk Panel 10 Marketing Preview — What’s New (PDF - 657 Kb)

Parallels Plesk Panel 10 Customer & Business Manager — Quick Start Guide (html)

Parallels Plesk Panel 10 Customer & Business Manager — Quick Start Guide (PDF - 401 Kb)​

Parallels Plesk Panel 10 Preview #3

What’s new

The following features are the focus of the preview:

Service Plans and Subscriptions
The concept of "templates" has been replaced with a concept of Service Plans defining resources and services available to a Customer in particular Subscription. Service Plans are accompanied by Add-ons defining additional set of resources for use by a particular Subscription. Customers may own any number of Subscriptions.

Multidomain hosting
The concept of "Plesk Domains" has been replaced with a concept of "Subscriptions". A Subscription is a hosting unit able to run multiple sites (domains and subdomains) using predetermined sets of resources and services. Customers can have one or several Subscriptions.

Multiple FTP accounts (Linux)
Customers can create and use multiple FTP accounts within a single Subscription.

New Control Panel and Auxiliary Users (for Customers)
The new Control Panel provides a much simpler User Interface for Customers and also introduces auxiliary Users that are able to access the Control Panel simultaneously with Customer.

New Administration Panel (for Admin & Resellers)
The new Administration Panel focuses purely on Server and Account operations providing higher performance and enhancing the ease of use for admins and resellers.

Health Monitor
The Health Monitor is a new experimental feature designed to assist admins in tracking server health.

Integrated Customer & Business Manager Module (formerly Parallels Plesk Billing or ModernBill)
If installed the "Customer & Business Manager" enables a full range of business tools fully integrated into the control panel. Business Store front, invoicing, online payments and accounting are just a few of the integrated features. Domain registration and SSL certificates are available as well.

Parallels® Partner Storefront
Parallels Partner Storefront is a key component of Parallels Plesk Panel 10 that enables cloud services providers to quickly and easily monetize their Panel customers through the sale of commercial applications. Providers can offer their Panel customers a wide variety of small business applications, without development effort, by partnering with Parallels in a revenue-share business model.

Below is more specific information to assist you in evaluating the new features.

Features

Service Plans and Subscriptions
The concept of "templates" has been replaced with a concept of Service Plans defining resources and services available to a Customer in particular Subscription. Service Plans are accompanied by Add-ons defining additional set of resources for use by a particular Subscription. Customers may own any number of Subscriptions.

Try the following workflow to evaluate the new feature:

• Create Service Plans defining your basic hosting offerings
• Create Service Plan Add-ons defining additional offerings
• Add a new customer and subscribe them to one of Service Plans. Add-ons can then be added at this stage.

• Customize the subscription
• Return the subscription back to the initial Service Plan
• Switch the subscription to a different Service Plan or add/revoke add-ons

Multidomain hosting
The concept of "Plesk Domains" has been replaced with a concept of "Subscriptions". A Subscription is a hosting unit able to run multiple sites (domains and subdomains) using predetermined sets of resources and services. Customers can have one or several Subscriptions.

Multiple FTP accounts
Customers can create and use multiple FTP accounts within a single Subscription.

New Control Panel and Auxiliary Users (for Customers)
The new Control Panel provides a much simpler User Interface for Customers and also introduces auxiliary Users that are able to access the Control Panel simultaneously with Customer.

New Administration Panel (for Admin & Resellers)
The new Administration Panel focuses purely on Server and Account operations providing higher performance and enhancing the ease of use for admins and resellers.

Health Monitor
The Health Monitor is a new experimental feature designed to assist admins in tracking server health.

Make sure you’ve selected this component in the command-line autoinstaller:

Alternatively you can enable the feature from "Server Tools" / "Updates" menu:

Integrated Customer & Business Manager Module
(former Parallels Plesk Billing or ModernBill)
If installed the "Customer & Business Manager" enables a full range of business tools fully integrated into the control panel. Business Store front, invoicing, online payments and accounting are just a few of the integrated features. Domain registration and SSL certificates are available as well.

End-customers can pay their bills inside the Control Panel:

Administrators will have business information and can perform business operations in the Control Panel:

Please read the new "Customer and Business Manager Quick Start Guide" to quickly and easily learn how to set up and use the Module.

Parallels® Partner Storefront
The Parallels Partner Storefront allows service provider partners to rapidly and easily monetize small business customers by selling commercial applications in a revenue-share model with Parallels. Parallels take’s care of the setup, provisioning, licensing, billing and management aspects.

It’s Fast and Easy to activate your Storefront, simply:

1. Select the apps you want to offer from a growing list of Small Business Applications
2. Tell us your selections and send us your logo
3. View a short orientation webinar on how it all works

We do all the rest!