
If you've been blogging, running discussion forums, or managing a simple website, there's a good chance you started out using one of the free
services. And that probably worked well enough for a while, but then you outgrew it; you were ready for your own web space, your own domain name,
professional-looking e-mail, and no ads. So now, you're either looking into or have already moved into shared web hosting, where for a
reasonable
rate you can have your own space on a professional web server.
Once you start handling all aspects of your website, you learn one thing right away: it's not easy setting things up on a machine many miles
away
from your home or business! You've got image files to upload, e-mail addresses to configure and databases to manage, all on a machine you'll
probably never see in person. Fortunately for you, the aspiring web journalist, entrepreneur, or community leader -- there's Plesk®.
Plesk® is a control panel, which basically means it helps to handle day-to-day administration at all levels of a server. As a shared hosting
customer, that means it will help you to performs tasks like:

automating backups

dividing your domain into sub-domains

installing popular blogging and forums software

creating new email accounts

password protecting your non-public pages

setting up databases
If you know how to point and click with your mouse then you're ready to use Plesk® to do all of that and more.
Plesk is a solution to many problems, but you can think of it as your all-in-one website solution. Totally web-based, it's a tool that will be
there for you anywhere you have Internet access. From the comfort of your web browser, you'll be managing your Internet domain like a
veritable server guru in no time!