Parallels® Plesk Automation

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Power, Performance, and Scalability for Growing Why Automate with Parallels Plesk Automation? Hosting Businesses Increase Revenue

You may have started your hosting business on a single , but if your • Attract new customers by launching high-performance hybrid shared business is growing, you’ll soon find that a single-server approach just isn’t hosting services. efficient. Each time you add a new server, you end up duplicating web, mail, database, and DNS services across more servers. Managing all those servers is • Increase sales and expand globally both time-consuming and expensive. with multi-language support. Offer your services in multiple geographies, with It’s also getting harder to stay competitive with traditional hosting services. You customer and administrator views that want to combine the best and Windows services together in a single are fully localized. hosting subscription and provide better, enhanced email services that include • Grow and upsell your customer shared calendars, contacts, tasks and mobile access. base with a wide range of hosting and Your customers do not want to learn all the different control panels you use and value-added services. demand to have one unified interface across all the services you provide. They Keep Your Costs Down also demand that their web sites should be very fast, even during the highest pick hours and holidays. • Automate all aspects of your business management, including It’s impossible to achieve this with a single-server approach. You need to use support and system maintenance, distributed infrastructure with dedicated workloads, centralized management and lowering the need for system unified user interface. management staff. Introducing the solution: Parallels Plesk Automation is a high-performance • Scale your business without multi-server automation solution that lets you dedicate each server to a single increasing headcount. Centralized workload (web, mail, database, or DNS), while managing from an intuitive, unified management significantly reduces interface – the same user interface across all your products and services. It is the administrative costs. only solution that offers both Linux and Windows hosting and lets you manage • Reduce the chance for human errors both through the same central panel. by automating business management tasks. • Rely on unlimited support that comes with Management node and Service node licenses. • Reduce number of licenses and save. Centralizing services require fewer licenses to buy (e.g., only one anti-spam/antivirus license for a single, centralized mail server).

Easy to Deploy and Scale • Quickly deploy Parallels Plesk Automation with automated deployment “Parallels Plesk Automation scripts and single-click “role” base service node installation. gives us the ability to separate • Scale to support thousands of customers. With Parallels Plesk Automation you can grow your hosting business one server at a time as your customer services, making it a lot more base expands, and leverage the user and administrator experience. Add new efficient for us to balance web, email, and database service nodes in minutes, in your or across multiple geographies. accounts and provision servers Easy to Use as necessary. The centralized • Familiar user interface. Take advantage of the easy-to-use Parallels Plesk management of accounts and Panel interface you and your customers already know across all the products and services you provide. resellers allows us to track • Customer self-management. Give your customers easy access to all their usage more efficiently…” services with a single, integrated that works across all supported technologies, on both Linux and Windows servers, available in English, French, — Rodolfo Elias, Hosting Services German, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, and Italian languages. Manager, 101domain.com

Published February 2014 Easy to Manage and Support Key Features • Improved security. Limit your vulnerability to attack by isolating production PPA with optional PPA Billing Module service nodes from each other and from the management node. Enhance user account security, including passwords, sessions, and permissions with central Complete Web Hosting Automation management interface. and Management • Enhance service quality and improve your customer’s experience. Update • Billing and receivables and apply service fixes without having to shut down services. • Hosting plans • Reduce administration effort with centralized management. Manage your • Online store entire hosting infrastructure centrally, from a single management panel on a • Reseller support* single server. This includes single point of software installation, centralized • White-label branding* management of service nodes and their licenses, centralized IP pools and • Automated license provisioning* additional software components. • PCS management* • Rely on unlimited access to the Parallels Global Support team. Priority • IP allocation technical support is included with Parallels Plesk Automation Management and • DNS management Service Node’s licenses. • • Improve reliability with centralized monitoring of server status and software • Multi-language support: English, components running on service nodes and reporting aggregated resource French, German, Spanish, Japanese, usage across your environment. Russian, and Italian Easy to Sell and Bill Flexible billing solution • Sell to the broadest audiences. Offer shared hosting services on Windows • Product management or Linux, IIS or Apache web servers, or all of the above – across a wide range • Online/offline payment processing of technologies including PHP, .NET, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Postfix, • Anti-fraud plug-ins and SmarterMail. • Bank transfers • Integrate with your existing billing system. Parallels Plesk Automation • Integrated open-source (PHP) online comes with its own billing module – Parallels Plesk Automation Billing – and store also works with Parallels Business Automation Standard and other billing • Country-specific billing* systems such as WHMCS. Plus, its Open API lets you integrate it with any • Automated recurring invoicing other billing system. • Discounts, promotions, coupon codes • Taxation with tax exemption Easy to Migrate • Automated upgrades/ downgrades • Migration to Parallels Plesk Automation is easy. You choose the account • Metered and unmetered resources transfer process, which moves the data from old servers to the new Parallels • Auto-suspend scenarios Plesk Automation Service Nodes on a server-by-server basis, allowing you to gradually transfer your customers to the new environment. Migration tools Integrated payment gateways available: Parallels Plesk Panel, H-Sphere, Helm, and Expand. • Credit card processing with fraud • Need help? We are here! Rely on our migration tools, documentation and verification support. Furthermore, migration assistance services are provided at no cost. • Popular payment gateways • Flexible manual approval rules Start Using Parallels Plesk Automation Today and Receive: • Refunds, reversals, credits • Low cost Management Node and Service Node licenses • Delayed capture, CVV/AVS verification • Free Parallels Plesk Automation Billing license valid till end of 2014 • Tokenization support for billing • Free migration assistance services * Will be released in future versions Hundreds of service providers worldwide rely on Parallels Plesk Automation to manage their web hosting business. Join them and find out what Parallels Plesk Automation can do for you. To learn more, watch these video tutorials, try a hands-on demo, and buy online at www.parallels.com/products/plesk-automation/

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