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 What Plesk is for a customer

Your Plesk login manages one subscription: domains, mail, files, databases, SSL. It is not root...

 Customer Plesk login

https://domain:8443 or client area. Username is the subscription user, not necessarily the...

 Add a domain, subdomain or alias

Add Domain for a new site, subdomain or alias. DNS must point here before the site or SSL works....

 Let’s Encrypt SSL on a domain

Domain → SSL/TLS Certificates → Let’s Encrypt. A record must hit this subscription. Failures are...

 DNS for a customer domain

DNS Settings on the domain apply only when nameservers point at this Plesk server. On Cloudflare,...

 Mailboxes for the domain

Mail → Create Email Address. IMAP 993, SMTP 465, full address as username. MX must point here....

 File Manager and httpdocs

The website lives in httpdocs. Folders 755, files 644 — never 777. Show Hidden Files to edit...

 Subscription databases

Databases → Add Database, attach a user, open phpMyAdmin. Host is localhost. You only see your...

 WordPress Toolkit on the domain

WordPress menu: install, updates, security, clone, per-site backup. A Toolkit restore point is...

 Subscription Backup Manager

Backup Manager copies the whole subscription (sites, mail, databases). Download it before major...

 PHP and scheduled tasks

PHP Settings are per domain. Scheduled Tasks are the subscription cron. Do not run heavy jobs...

 Preferred domain and HTTPS redirect

Hosting Settings for www vs apex. SSL/TLS for HTTP→HTTPS. Do not stack WordPress, Plesk and...