The Dr. Web Antivirus feature in Plesk allows you to have all of your incoming or outgoing emails to be checked for viruses. The Dr. Web Antivirus virus database is always kept up to date to guard the emails against thousands of viruses.

To learn how to use the Dr. Web Antivirus in Plesk, read on the instructions below:

1. Login to your Plesk account. The Plesk homepage is now shown.

2. To use the Dr. Web Antivirus in Plesk, click the Mail icon.

3. Choose the email address for which you want to configure Dr. Web Antivirus.

4. On the next page shown, click the Dr. Web icon.

5. Select the incoming and outgoing mail option so that Dr. Web Antivirus can check all of the incoming and outgoing emails for viruses.

6. Click OK when you’re finished.

7. The Dr. Web Antivirus has been successfully configured. To go back to the Mail page, click the Mail link.

8. You will now be able to see that a “green spider” is visible beside an email account where you setup the Dr. Web Antivirus for. Click the Home link to return to the homepage.

9. This is the end of demo. You now know how to setup the Dr. Web Antivirus feature in Plesk and it will automatically check all incoming and outgoing emails for the email account that you setup in Plesk.

10.Thank you for watching the tutorial, if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask us.

November 14, 2011 at 11:29 pm | No comment

Suspending a customer’s account in Plesk is applicable if a customer’s account is past due; they’re spamming or publishing content that is against your Acceptable Use Policy. Suspending an account will cause all website, FTP, Frontpage email and database functions of an account to stop working.

If you want to know how to suspend or unsuspend an existing account in Plesk, follow the instructions below:

1. Login to Plesk.

2. To suspend an existing host account in Plesk, scroll down to view the list of existing accounts.

3. If the hosting account has a green button beside it, it means that is still active or not suspended. To suspend an account, click the status (green icon) icon next to the domain name.

4. Suspending an account is an immediate action and a confirmation message box will show to confirm the suspension of the account. Click OK.

5. Scroll down to check if the account has been successfully suspended. An account has been successfully suspended if a red X icon is shown beside the domain name.

6. To unsuspend the account, click the red X icon.

7. On the message box that shows click OK to unsuspend the account.

8. Scroll down to check if you have successfully unsuspend or re-activated the account.

9. This is the end of the demo. You now know how to suspend or unsuspend an existing hosting account.

10. Thank you for watching the tutorial. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask us.

November 13, 2011 at 11:23 pm | No comment

Modifying an account in web hosting is normal. This is done if an existing customer wishes to add more storage or disk space, more bandwidth or other resources.

To learn how to modify an existing hosting account in Plesk, follow the instructions below:

1. Login to Plesk.

2. On the main menu page, scroll down to modify an existing hosting account.

3. Select the hosting account that you wish to modify.

4. The Domain page for the existing user is now shown. Click the Limits icon under the Domain section.

5. You will be directed to the Limits page for the existing account. This is where you can change or modify the limits that exist in the account. To increase the allocated disk space for an existing hosting account, change the number in the box beside Disk space.

6. Scroll down to save the modification for the existing hosting account.

7. Click OK.

8. The existing account has been successfully modified. Click the Home link to go back to the main page.

9. This is the end of the tutorial. You now know how to modify an existing hosting account in Plesk by changing the limits that was previously assigned to it.

10. Thank you for watching the tutorial. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask us.

November 12, 2011 at 11:16 pm | No comment

A Reseller in web hosting means that a customer can purchase a Reseller account from a web host provider then distributes the account to different users who wishes to have a website. The Reseller sets up a limited space for bandwidth and disk space for the users. For a Reseller to be able to setup and manage a customer’s or user’s account, he or she has to setup a web hosting control panel.

To learn how to login to Plesk by using a Reseller account, follow the instructions below:

1. Open an internet browser and type in the following: https://:8443. The IP address that you should use is the IP address that was given to you by your web hosting provider.

2. To login to Plesk as a Reseller, enter your Reseller Username in the Username box.

3. Enter your password.

4. Click Login.

5. You have now successfully logged in to Plesk using your Reseller account. As a Reseller, you have access to setup and manage new hosting accounts. Click Home to return to the main menu.

6. If you wish to log out of Plesk, click the Log Out link.

7. Click OK.

8. End of demo. You now know how to login to Plesk using a Reseller account. Thank you for watching the video tutorial; be sure to let us know if you have any questions.

November 11, 2011 at 11:06 pm | No comment

If you own a web hosting account, chances are there will come a time when you will need to delete certain domain account(s) within your account, be it because a domain name was not renewed by a user or other reasons. In Plesk, deleting an existing domain account is easy. Deleting a hosting account is a permanent action and cannot be undone. This means that the existing files, email addresses, databases within the account will also be deleted.

If you want to learn how to delete a hosting account in plesk, read the instructions below or watch the video tutorial:

1. Login to Plesk.

2. To delete an existing hosting account in Plesk, scroll down to see the available domains under your account.

3. Select the box next to the account that you wish to delete.

4. Click the Remove Selected link.

5. You will be directed to the Removal Confirmation page. Tick the box next to Confirm Removal.

6. Click OK.

7. The domain hosting account has been deleted. To check if the domain account has been successfully deleted, scroll down.

8. This is the end of demo. You now know how to delete an existing hosting account.

9. Thank you for watching the tutorial; if you have any questions, please let us know.

November 9, 2011 at 10:32 pm | No comment