Adding Reseller Accounts for Hosting Resellers
To accommodate a new reseller:
- Go to Home > Accounts group title menu > Create Reseller Account.
- Specify the contact and billing information. Contact name, login name and password are mandatory fields.
- If you have predefined user account templates, you can select the template you need from the Select template menu.
- If the Sitebuilder Web site creation and management service is installed on the server, leave the Create a corresponding user account in Sitebuilder check box selected.
- Click Next >>.
- Specify the following settings:
- Click Next >>.
- Grant the required permissions to the reseller (if you created this user account without using a reseller account template):
- Access to control panel. Select this to allow the reseller to access the control panel for managing his or her account, users accounts, and sites.
- Client account creation. Select this to allow the reseller to create user accounts.
- Domain creation and Physical hosting management. Select these two options to allow the reseller to set up hosting accounts for new sites, modify hosting account features and switch on or off support for programming and scripting languages.
- Hosting performance management. Specify whether the reseller will be able to limit bandwidth usage and number of connections to his or her Web sites.
- PHP safe mode management (available only for Linux hosting). Specify whether the reseller will be able to switch the PHP safe mode off for his or her sites. By default, PHP is configured to operate in safe mode with functional restrictions. To learn more about PHP safe mode, refer to http://php.net/features.safe-mode. Some Web applications may not work properly with safe mode enabled: If an application on a site fails due to safe mode, switch the safe mode off by clearing the PHP 'safe_mode' on check box in the hosting account properties (Domains > domain name > Web Hosting Settings).
- Management of access to server over SSH (available only for Linux hosting) or Management of access to server over Remote Desktop (available only for Windows hosting). Specify whether the reseller will be able to access the server shell through Secure Shell or Remote Desktop protocols. Note that allowing access to the server also poses a potential threat to the server security.
- Hard disk quota assignment. Specify whether the reseller will be able to assign hard quotas on disk space for his or her own Web sites and for Web sites of his or her customers.
- Subdomains management. Specify whether the reseller will be able to set up additional sites under his or her domains and allow his or her customers to do so.
- Domain aliases management. Specify whether the reseller will be able to set up additional alternative domain names for his or her Web sites and allow his or her users to do so.
- Log rotation management. Specify whether the reseller will be able to adjust the cleanup and recycling of processed log files for his or her sites.
- Anonymous FTP management. Specify whether the reseller will be able to have an FTP directory where all users could download and upload files without the need to enter login and password. A web site should reside on a dedicated IP address in order to use anonymous FTP service.
- FTP accounts management (available only for Windows-based hosting). Specify whether the reseller will be able to manage additional FTP accounts for Web sites.
- Scheduler management. Specify whether the reseller will be able to schedule tasks in the system. Scheduled tasks can be used for running scripts or utilities on schedule.
- Limits adjustment. Limits adjustment. Specify whether the reseller will be able to adjust resource allotments for his or her Web sites and user accounts. You must select this option, otherwise the reseller will be able to set up new user accounts and Web sites only by means of user account and domain templates predefined by the server administrator.
- DNS zone management. Specify whether the reseller will be able to manage the DNS zones of his or her domains.
- Java applications management. Specify whether the reseller will be able to install Java applications and applets on Web sites through the control panel.
- Mailing lists management. Specify whether the customer will be able to use mailing lists provided by the GNU Mailman software.
- Spam filter management. Specify whether the reseller will be able to use SpamAssassin spam filter and customize filtering settings.
- Antivirus management. Specify whether the reseller will be able to use server-side antivirus protection for filtering incoming and outgoing mail.
- Ability to use remote XML interface. Specify whether the reseller will be able to remotely manage his or her Web sites through custom applications. The XML interface can be used for developing custom applications integrated with Web sites, which could be used, for instance, for automating setup of hosting accounts and provisioning of services for customers purchasing hosting services from a site. To learn more about using Parallels Plesk Panel's XML interface (also referred to as Parallels Plesk Panel API RPC), refer to the API RPC documentation available at http://www.parallels.com/ptn/documentation/ppp/.
- Ability to use Sitebuilder. Specify whether the reseller will be able to use Sitebuilder for creating and editing his or her Web sites.
- IIS application pool management (available only for Windows hosting). Specify whether the reseller will be able to manage his or her IIS application pool.
- Web statistics management. Specify whether the reseller will be able to manage Web statistics for his or her Web sites.
- Additional write/modify permissions management (available only for Windows hosting). Specify whether the reseller will be able to manage additional write/modify permissions for their domains. These permissions are required if customer's Web applications are using a file-based database (like Jet) located in the root of
httpdocs
or httpsdocs
folders. Please note that selecting this option might seriously compromise the Web site security. - Shared SSL management (available only for Windows hosting). Specify whether the reseller will be able to manage shared SSL for his or her Web sites.
- Home page management. Specify whether the reseller will be able to customize his or her Home page.
- Ability to select a database server. Specify whether the reseller will be able to select a database server of each type for creating his or her databases, not only use the default database server.
- Allow backing up and restoring data and use. Specify whether the reseller will be able to use the control panel's facilities to back up and restore his or her sites. To allow storing backup files on the server, select the Server repository check box. To allow the reseller to use an arbitrary FTP server for storing backups, select the Personal FTP repository check box.
- Click Next >>.
- Allocate IP addresses to the user: select IP addresses and click Add >>.
- Click Finish.
You can now send the URL to control panel and login credentials to the reseller.