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Hosting

Getting Started

What is the Plesk Control Panel?

What is the Plesk Control Panel?

An introduction to Plesk and how to log in to your hosting control panel.

Domains & Subdomains

Adding a Domain to Your Account

Creating a Subdomain

Setting Up Domain Aliases (Parked Domains)

Pointing Your Domain to Our Nameservers

Email

Creating an Email Account

How to create a new email account for your domain in Plesk.

Setting Up a Catch-All Email Address

Configuring an Email Client

Setting Up Email Forwarders

Managing Spam Filtering

Files & FTP

Accessing Files with the File Manager

Connecting via FTP

Setting File & Folder Permissions

Databases

Creating a MySQL or PostgreSQL Database

Accessing phpMyAdmin

Importing & Exporting a Database

WordPress

Installing WordPress with the WordPress Toolkit

Managing WordPress Updates & Auto-Updates

Cloning a WordPress Site (Staging)

Securing WordPress

SSL Certificates

Installing a Free Let's Encrypt SSL Certificate

Forcing HTTPS on Your Domain

Backups

Understanding Your Backup Policy

Restoring Files from a Backup

Restoring a Database from a Backup

Restoring Emails from a Backup

Performance

Understanding Resource Limits

What Happens When You Hit a Resource Limit

Viewing Your Resource Usage in Plesk

Troubleshooting

Checking Error Logs

Common 500 Internal Server Error Causes

Site Shows Deceptive Site or SSL Warning