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Your email account includes 250 SMTP relays per mailbox, per day. Each address listed in the CC and BCC fields count against your daily limit. One relay consists of an email message sent to one address using the SMTP service. Therefore, you can send up to 250 messages per day, per mailbox. Your SMTP relay […]

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The following limitations apply to webmail Email accounts: Incoming Mail Size — There is a 30MB limit per email message you receive, including file attachments, which have a size limit of 20MB total. Messages larger than 30MB are rejected by our incoming server and a bounceback message is sent to the sender. There is no limit […]

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Now we can request a certificate for our website: Go to Websites & Domains and find your website. Find the Let’s Encrypt menu item for that domain. Enter a valid e-mail address. This is used to send urgent notifications and for lost key recovery. If your domain is also available with the www subdomain, make sure to tick the box next […]

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SSL support for your site is enabled: Go to the Hosting Settings for your domain. Look for the Security section. Make sure the box next to SSL/TLS support is ticked. Double-check that the correct Let’s Encrypt certificate is selected. Save your settings. Configure Let’s Encrypt for this domain.

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Exporting and Importing Database Dumps A database dump is a file containing a database structure and content. You can use it for backup purposes. In earlier Plesk versions, dumps could be created only using database management tools. Now Plesk offers a quicker way to create database dumps, store them, and deploy previously created dumps on […]

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Our Plesk shared hosting accounts offer WebMatrix “publish profiles,” so you can easily publish your website. To Download Your WebMatrix Publish Profile Log in to your Plesk Control Panel Click Websites & Domain Menu. At the bottom of the section of the domain hosting you want to use, click the downward-facing arrow. Click Web Deploy Publishing Settings. Your Web […]

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Creating Databases To create a new database on a hosting account: If you are subscribed to several hosting packages and have access to several webspaces associated with your account, in the Subscription menu at the top of the screen, select the required webspace. Click the Websites & Domains tab. Click Databases (in the Advanced Operations group). Click Add New Database. Enter a name for […]

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Creating Database User Accounts If you collaborate with other people on managing a website and wish to give them access to the database, you should create separate user accounts for them. To create a database user account: If you are subscribed to several hosting packages and have access to several webspaces associated with your account, […]

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Procedure for change the customer contact information: 1.Login to your plesk control panel2.Click on customer3.Click on the corresponding customer.4.Click on the “Edit contact info”5. Edit the customer name6.Click on ok.

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Please follow the below procdure for database quota change for particular domain : 1.Login to your plesk control panel2.Click on subscriptions3.Click on customize option4.Check the quota for your database and change it.5.Click on ok.

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Creating Databases You can create and remove databases in Websites & Domains > Databases. You can create a database by specifying its name. If your subscription grants you the corresponding permission, you can choose a database type and the database server on which the database should be created. You can select a website on which the database will […]

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Symptoms Plesk is running on Windows 2008. When you try to upload a file with a large size, Plesk Panel shows this error: HTTP Error 404.13 – Not Found The request filtering module is configured to deny a request that exceeds the request content length. Cause This problem occurs because the client request contains a […]

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Please note that you can follow the below procedure to forward the domain domain1.com to domain2.com 1> Login to your plesk control panel.2> Click on subscriptions.3> Click on open in control panel.4> Click on website and domains5> Click on the domain name at the bottom.6> Click on change hosting and enter the domain name for […]

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Please note that to follow the below procedure to enable the Auto-Reply: 1.Login to the plesk control panel.2.Click on the customer.3.Click on the domain.4.Click on the “Open with control panel”5.Click on the mail tab.6.Click on that mail id7.Click on Auto-Reply.8.Enter your massages in the auto-reply.9.Click on ok.

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How to move a database to the different database server within Plesk on Motherhost Server? Log into Plesk Navigate to the Domains > example.com > Databases: Click on the Copy button under the database that should be moved to another database server Select the desired target database server in the Destination database server field: Specify the same name to the Destination […]

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Please note that you need to use the below procedure for creating the customer account for the domains which is already exist in the control panel. 1> Create the customer account.During the creating of this uncheck the subscription option.That is dont create the subscription option.Now you have created only the customer account with out any […]

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Importing Databases To import an existing database: If you are subscribed to several hosting packages and have access to several webspaces associated with your account, in the Subscription menu at the top of the screen, select the required webspace. Go to the Websites & Domains tab > Databases(in the Advanced Operations group) > Add New Database. Enter a name for the database. We […]

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Default Ports: Server: Authentication: Port: Host Address SMTP Server (Outgoing Messages) Non-Encrypted AUTH 25 (or 587) yourdomain.com   Secure (TLS) StartTLS 587 india.windowshostingdns.com   Secure (SSL) SSL 465 india.windowshostingdns.com POP3 Server (Incoming Messages) Non-Encrypted AUTH 110 yourdomain.com   Secure (SSL) SSL 995 india.windowshostingdns.com MAP Server (Incoming Messages) Non-Encrypted AUTH 143 yourdomain.com   Secure (TLS) StartTLS […]

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Restoring Backups You can restore data from backup files kept in Panel’s repository on the server, a custom FTP repository, and you can upload a backup file in a ZIP archive (on Windows systems) or tar archive (on Linux systems), and then restore data from it. To restore data from a backup file: Go to the Account tab > Back Up My […]

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We allow up to 100 simultaneous connections per MS SQL user. MS SQL Server limits you to 1024 columns per table. The number of tables and of rows per table is only limited to 200 MB.  Additionally, each MS SQL database transaction log is limited to 100MB in size.

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  On Windows servers, you can set them up to run at certain times by creating a schedule task (which is similar to how you can run cron jobs on Linux servers). Creating a Scheduled Task in Plesk 10: You can set up Scheduled Tasks in Plesk by doing the following: Log into Plesk* Click […]

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Temporary URL The temporary URL is used when your domain name is not working. Your actual URL can be found in your new account welcome email. The following examples demonstrate the correct temporary URL format according to the control panel being used. Format for the Primary Domain Hosting with cPanel http://serverIP/~cpanelusername/ (Be sure to replace […]

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Clone Git Repository You can create a Git repository that will be a clone of a remote repository. Go to Websites&Domains and click Git. If you have already created Git repositories for your domain, click the Add Repository button. You will see the screen for creating a new repository: First, you have to select where your code is stored. In […]

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