User interfaces of SBP and Plesk in Power User view are almost identical. Therefore, here we will discuss only the most important changes to the way you work with Plesk.
Plesk, comparing to SBP, allows more accurate adjustment of user role privileges due to a larger number of available permissions. For example, Plesk allows dividing users on those who can manage mail accounts and those who can manage company mailing lists. As Plesk has the extended list of permissions, some of SBP permissions can migrate into a number of related Plesk permissions. For better understanding how permissions are migrated, refer to the table below.
SBP permission |
Plesk permission |
Migration result comments |
Manage users Manage roles |
Manage users and roles |
The permission is granted, if one of the SBP permissions is granted. |
Manage websites and domains |
Create and manage sites Configure log rotation Configure anonymous FTP service Create and manage scheduled tasks Create and manage databases Configure and perform data backup and restoration View statistics Design sites in Presence Builder Create and manage additional FTP accounts Manage DNS settings Install and manage Java applications |
|
Change server settings |
- |
The permission is not migrated, as Plesk allows changing server settings to users with the Administrator role only. |
Manage mail |
Create and manage mail accounts Create and manage mailing lists |
|
Update personal information |
- |
The permission is not migrated, as Plesk allows changing personal information to all users. |
- |
Upload and manage files |
By default, this permission is denied after migration. |
- |
Configure spam filter |
By default, this permission is denied after migration. |
- |
Configure antivirus |
By default, this permission is denied after migration. |
For more information on user role properties, refer to the section User Roles.
While using SBP, you could easily create your own websites with the Site Editor tool. For the same purposes, Plesk provides you with the much more powerful tool, Presence Builder. Comparing to Site Editor, Presence Builder offers:
For more information on Presence Builder, refer to the section Building Websites with Presence Builder.
Note that websites created in Site Editor are not compatible with Presence Builder. Nevertheless, if Site Editor is installed in Plesk, you can edit such websites with it. In that case, websites in Websites & Domains list will contain the additional button Edit in SiteBuilder 4 or Site Editor.
Plesk allows you to secure connections to your websites the same way as you did in SBP. That means you can obtain SSL certificates in Tools & Settings > SSL Certificates and assign them to IP addresses in Tools & Settings > IP Addresses. As in SBP, you can assign only one certificate per IP address. Thus, if your hosting resources include one shared IP address, you can secure only one website. Plesk provides enhanced SSL protection features that allow you to resolve this problem:
The process of assigning an SSL certificate to a website is covered in the section Securing Connections with SSL Certificates.
Comparing to SBP, the app management in Plesk has little or no changes. As in SBP, the list of available web apps is accessed through the Applications tab. For more information on app management, refer to the section Using Website Applications.
Note that the uploading of your own app packages is now performed by means of Application Vault. Vault is the local Plesk repository of web apps. Besides of extending the list of available apps, it allows you to update apps, configure their server-wide settings, and carry out some other operations. For more information on Application Vault, refer to the section Web Applications.
Mail management in Plesk slightly differs from that in SBP. General mail settings are now available in Mail Server Settings.
Comparing to SBP mail functionality, Plesk provides a number of additional mail features:
On top of main changes described above, Plesk contains a number of features unavailable in SBP at all. These are event management, server health monitoring, custom branding themes and many more. The scope of this chapter does not allow to cover all of them. For the detailed information on other server management operations, refer to certain sections of this guide.