HOW TO: Setting up Name Servers in Plesk

HOWTO: Name Servers in Plesk

1. Register Primary and Secondary nameservers with registrar to two local IP’s on the Plesk system.

2. Create “A” and “PTR” Records for the primary and secondary nameservers in a local domain’s zone designating the two IP’s as nameservers.

3. Create the NS records in the DNS Template under the SERVER section. This will automatically insert the zone records into any newly created domain’s zone file.

4. Add the NS records to any domain that you wish to use the nameservers for.

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File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

FTP means File Transfer Protocol. This protocol is used to transfer files from your computer’s hard drive to a remote server, such as any web hosting server. You would use FTP to upload (or send) your web page files (contents) you make on your computer to your web space provided by any web hosting company.

To use FTP, you will need an FTP program. There are many out there such as CuteFTP, SmartFTP, and FileZilla. You will need to set up the FTP program with your domain’s FTP host name, username and password. This information is sent to you by your web host. Once you have your FTP program set up, you can then upload files to your web space so that the public can view your web site.

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Setting POP/SMTP for cPanel

Each website has email addresses, and they need to get it configured on the email clients like Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook, Eudora, Thunderbird etc…

Most email clients require the following information:

POP3/Incoming Mail Server: mail.yourdomain.com

SMTP/Outgoing Mail Server: Use the setting for the outgoing mail server provided by your ISP or mail.yourdomain.com

Account Name: Whole email address is your account name

Password: Password that you’ve assigned for the email account

Email Ports
POP3/Incoming port: 110
SMTP/Outgoing port: 25

Enable “My server requires authentication” option.

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Plesk control panel

Plesk is a web based control panel which supports Linux as well as Windows operating systems. It allows a server administrator to set up new websites, email accounts, and DNS entries through a web-based interface.

Plesk have various features like create sub domains, manage domains, automatically create a new site with point-and-click ease, based on a domain template or custom requirements, automatically create DNS and appropriate application entries, such as Apache, FTP, create email, mail groups, auto responders, create protected directories (SSL and non-SSL), Log Rotation Management, manage site using FrontPage Web-Admin etc…

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cPanel server ports

If you have cPanel control panel on your web server which is behind a firewall, you’ll require all this ports in order to get cPanel working properly:

Ports	Service	Protocol	Direction
20	ftp	tcp,udp	inbound/outbound
21	ftp	tcp,udp	inbound/outbound
22	ssh	tcp	inbound
25	smtp	tcp	inbound/outbound
26	smtp	tcp	inbound/outbound
37	rdate	tcp	outbound
43	whois	tcp	outbound
53	DNS	tcp/udp	inbound/outbound
80	http	tcp	inbound/outbound
110	pop3	tcp	inbound
113	ident	tcp	outbound
143	imap4	tcp	inbound
443	https	tcp	inbound
465	smtp tls/ssl	tcp/udp	inbound/outbound
873	rsync	tcp/udp	outbound
993	imap4 ssl	tcp	inbound
995	pop3 ssl	tcp	inbound
2077	webdav	tcp/udp	inbound/outbound
2078	webdav ssl	tcp/udp	inbound/outbound
2082	cpanel	tcp	inbound
2083	cpanel ssl	tcp	inbound
2086	whm	tcp	inbound
2087	whm ssl	tcp	inbound
2089	cp licence	tcp	outbound
2095	Webmail	tcp	inbound
2096	Webmail SSL	tcp	inbound
3306	mysql	tcp	Remotely ONLY

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Reseller Web Hosting

Reseller web hosting is selling web hosting space to clients under your own brand (also called as private label hosting) when the web hosting is provided by primary hosts. The primary host or the real hosts sell their services to the resellers and then resellers sell the web space to the site owners.

Now a day it is very easy to start a business like reseller web hosting. The primary hosting company through their reseller provides better and extra services which other developed web hosting companies are unable to provide to their customers. The real web hosting company charge monthly, quarterly, annually to their resellers and these resellers sells the allotted web hosting space in profitable cost and also provide services like web site design, search engine optimization (SEO) etc…

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cPanel Web Hosting

cPanel is a web based control panel for web hosting companies. cPanel is used to manage web sites which are created on the web server. cPanel is very user friendly and it makes the life of webmaster much easier.

This control panel have functions such as creating a domain name, addon domain, domain redirect which helps to manage the domain properly. Other functions such as creating email accounts, FTP for uploading files, File Manager to manage the files online, webmail interfaces like squirrel mail, Horde makes easy for the user to check the emails from any location. Pre-installed third party scripts like forums, shopping carts, wordpress blogs, CMS like joomla, mambo helps the user to install applications just in one click.

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Web Hosting Control Panels

Control Panel is software installed on a web hosting server to control the hosting features. There are special features provided for system administrators, resellers and end users. This web hosting control panel is an interface for maintaining and monitoring the web hosting server. Web hosting control panel features includes email accounts, logs and stats, addon domain, sub domain, file manager and many more…

There are control panels available for UNIX, Linux, Windows operating systems. To name a few Linux based control panels are cPanel, DirectAdmin, Plesk, Ensim, Hsphere, webmin etc… Windows control panels are Helm, Plesk, Hsphere, Ensim etc… One can find the demos of control panel on the control panel provider sites.

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