Plesk gives a user the ability to manage large variety of services on their server. A small list (but not limited to) of services are listed below. You also have the ability to manually install (in the Plesk Control Panel) Add-ons and services.
The benefits of Plesk are:
- Build
Providing a ready-to-code environment in an intuitive interface, Plesk lets you do what you're best at: creating and configuring web applications and websites for SMB's (small and medium businesses).
- Secure
Web industry research shows 9 out of 10 web app developers decide on securing an application when it’s too late. Plesk fully secures your applications and websites automatically.
- Run
Focus your skills not on infrastructure management but on coding. Save crucial time by automating all server related tasks and components to run and scale your web applications and websites.
Another benefit of using Plesk is the ability to use the following features:
- Appearance and Branding
- Web Server
- Statistics and Monitoring
- Event Tracking
- Third Party Components
- Databases
- Application
- System time and Services
- Scheduling Tasks
- Backups
- Apache
- Sharing Files and Folders
- Panel Updates and Upgrades
- Mass Email Configuration
- WordPress
- PHP
- Joomla
- DNS Zones
Plesk has many more services than just the ones listed above. Overall, it provides predefined configurations for people without web-hosting experience and is also suitable for veterans in the web-hosting world, because of the many options for customization.