The Parallels Plesk Control Panel software package (PLESK) is a popular commercial web hosting program which allows web hosting clients to create websites, domains and e-mail accounts through a powerful web-based interface. Commercial web hosting with plesk is more popularly known for supporting numerous operating system platforms, such as Linux, Red Hat Fedora, Ubuntu and Windows.

Plesk’s side features include creating multiple client and site templates, which allows clients to be provided with a data and traffic projection of their websites in terms of creating domains. Being a comprehensive solution in handling control panel processes, Plesk is widely used for shared, dedicated and virtual commercial web hosting worldwide. PLESK is mainly involved with the automation of large number of control panel tasks that will guarantee clients of reduced operating costs and low maintenance fees with the rising revenue margins of the clients.

PLESK can also install and manage databases such as MYSQL and many popular game servers like CounterStrike and Battlefield 1942.

Commercial web hosting with plesk also contains useful add-ons that are included in the software package. Examples of these are site builder and billing features that you can get with the complete installation package of PLESK in commercial web hosting providers.

PLESK has four login levels, namely: Administrator, who has full access to centrally manage one or multiple servers; Client, who obtains web access rights to create domains and e-mail accounts; Domain Owner, which can only manage single domains under preset permission levels; and the Mail User, more like an ordinary e-mail account owner that manages password and spam protection of his own private account.