Plesk 7.5 for Windows reloads your control panel and keeps it reloaded. With 100+ new enhancements the software delivers a low total cost of ownership and a new ease of management through several optimization features like our new key auto-update mechanism, auto-component updater, migration manager for importing legacy customers, and a Web-based installation for quick deployment.

The redesigned cleaner and easier to use interface gives your customers the ability to create custom skins and to integrate Plesk into high-level provisioning systems. Plesk 7.5 for Windows has months of user-suggested features included and tons of enhancements to its predecessor Plesk 7. In addition, there is increased flexibility and support for third-party application integration (mail servers, ftp servers, web statistic, and Plesk plug-ins) allowing users to pick and choose between several options for management.

Commitment to Microsoft Technology

The new release of Plesk 7.5 for Windows holds the industry gold standard for Windows hosting. The software was developed with a close adherence to Microsoft shared hosting guidelines. Plesk 7.5 for Windows includes complete IIS management capabilities in addition to support for the Microsoft DNS server. Furthermore, you can jump-start your ASP.NET development with automatically deployed ASP.NET Starter Kits. Developers will receive a totally new level of support for working with various ASP.NET framework versions (including 2.0), control over IIS application pools, managing Code Access Security, checking and automatic fixing of most common configuration and permission errors, ASP.NET debugging, and more.

Secure

Plesk 7.5 for Windows has been designed and tested for security. The software’s redesigned impersonation subsystem improves overall system security as well as support for 3rd party FTP servers that make secure uploads possible. Furthermore, sender Permission Framework (SPF) support provides elevated spam protection and ensures that your mail will be received by mail services adopting this policy, e.g. AOL or Hotmail. The new auto-upgrade mechanism supports updating of third-party components like Perl or PHP eliminating newly found security issues. Finally, security reviews during a multi-beta stage mitigate the risk of exploitable security vulnerabilities in Plesk.

Plesk Software Development Kit (SDK)

The new Plesk 7.5 for Windows software includes an SDK that allows you to build on Plesk, integrate into Plesk, or customize Plesk to meet your needs. The new software furnishes officially supported, stable (version to version) and a consistent (across platforms) set of APIs. Full documentation and examples allowing and encouraging easy customization and extension of base functionality are included. In addition, you can add skins and add-ons and the functionality can be extended further with plug-ins running side-by-side. Connect with Plesk via the extensive Plesk Agent XML API. The SDK makes it a cinch to automate your hosting operations, and sign new clients – it’s never been this easy to build centralized services provisioning on Plesk.

Platform Parity

Starting with this release, Plesk for UNIX and Plesk for Windows will have many common features, skins, application packs, language packs and documentation. It allows Windows users to benefit from 5 years of customer-driven usability improvements to all the interfaces of Plesk for UNIX. The common look and behavior further establish Plesk as an Industry Standard Hosting Platform for Hosting Service Providers.