> Administering Domains

Managing Hosting

Using Plesk you can select any of three different types of hosting services, as listed below:

  • Physical hosting: the most common type of hosting service, creating a virtual host (disk space on the local server) for the client. The client controls and publishes his own web site without having to purchase a server and dedicated communication lines.

  • Standard forwarding: with this type of forwarding, all requests to the domain are forwarded by your server to another Internet address (no virtual server is created). When an end user searches the Internet for the client's domain, he is routed to another URL, and the address in his browser window changes to the new URL.

  • Frame forwarding: all requests to this domain are forwarded to another Internet address (no virtual server is created). But with this type of forwarding, the end user sees the client's domain name in his browser, not the forwarding address. Plesk uses frames to 'trick' the browser into displaying the correct domain name. The problem with this type of forwarding is that some search engines do not index these frame pages and some browsers do not support frames.

Accessing the Hosting Setup Wizard

To access the hosting setup wizard for the domain, which is created but does not have hosting configured yet, use any of the following ways:

    1. Select the Clients shortcut in the navigation pane. The Clients list page opens:

    2. Click on a client's name. The Client Home page opens:

    3. Click on the icon to the left of the domain name. The hosting type selection page opens:

    1. Select the Domains shortcut in the navigation pane. The Domains list page will open:

    2. Click on the icon to the left of the domain name. The hosting type selection page opens:

  • When on the Domain Administration page click the Setup icon. The Hosting Type Selection page appears:


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