What is Plesk

Plesk is a popular panel to manage your server hosted web-projects. This panel allows you to manage "one-touch" of DNS zones, web-domains, databases, emails and so on.

Before install

One of the Plesk advantages is very "democratic" system requirements. To install this panel you must have:

  • Server under any x64 Linux or even Windows Server OS;
  • Privileged account access;
  • At least 512MB of available RAM;
  • 1024MB of SWAP-space;
  • 10GB Persistent Storage.

Panel setup procedure

To install Plesk on the server under Ubuntu 20.04 please follow these steps:

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  • Login as privileged user;
  • Update current system packages;
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y
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  • Reboot your server to initialize new software, including the new kernel;
  • Install wget tool to acquire setup script;
apt install -y wget
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  • Download initial file and run it;
cd /tmp && wget http://autoinstall.plesk.com/plesk-installer && bash plesk-installer
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  • Agree with the EULA, accept or decline participation in quality improvement programme;
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  • Select one of the predefined service sets. The first option is sufficient in most cases. Then confirm your choice;
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If the installation is successful, you should see a picture like the one below:

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  • Open the provided one-time URL in your browser and set your own access credentials;
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  • When the setup scripts finish their work, the panel will be ready to use:
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Summary

After reading this article, you know about the Plesk panel, its intended uses, system requirements, and installation steps.