Plesk Power Pack on a Linux or Windows VPS Hosting Package

Following are features of Plesk Power Pack :

1) MS SQL Server Integration : It allows users to manage SQL server databases with a lot of ease. These also include remote instances of MS SQL Server Standard or Enterprise Edition.

2) Tomcat : This enables environment to execute Java Servlets. It also helps managing Tomcat applications to enable JSP support.

3) Multi-Level Helpdesk : It is a multi-purpose helpdesk mainly structured to manage all support issues which means you can organize support requests from one location.

4) Application Pack : Group of all applications such as Mambo(Site Builder), post-Nuke(CMS), osCommerce ( Mainly used for E-commerce website ), phpBB (forums), Gallery (Picture Gallery), phpBook, bbclone (Counter) and gtchat (Chat engine)

5) Coldfusion : With this feature, administrators can configure Coldfusion paths.

6) SpamAssassin : This helps eliminating Spam which is basically a Anti-spam software

Plesk Control Panel is supported on Linux as well as Windows VPS Hosting packages :)

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TUN/TAP ( VPN Module ) on openVZ VPS

openVZ supports Tun/TAP in a container through kernel TUN/TAP module. In order to allow for e.g. #9, following is the procedure :

Please make sure you have tun module already on the main hardware node :

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lsmod | grep tun
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In case it is not there, you may command the following :

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modprobe tun
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Or rather you may also add it to /etc/modules.conf in order to load next time you reboot.

Therefter, in order to allow Access to TUN/TAP :

vzctl set 9 –devices c:10:200:rw –save
vzctl set 9 –capability net_admin:on –save

Then, you may create a character device file within the container :

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vzctl exec 9 mkdir -p /dev/net
vzctl exec 9 mknod /dev/net/tun c 10 200
vzctl exec 9 chmod 600 /dev/net/tun
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You have now enabled TUN/TAP on your VPS Hosting package.

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View Logs through Virtuozzo Power Panel

> Click on Logs on the left-hand side

> You will find three types of Logs such as Status changes / Qos Alerts and Actions Logs

Status Change : It shows all the changes such as start / stop / reboot or mount in repair mode

Qos or Quality of Servers shows the limit on some hardware resource

Log is always generated when you are about to reach a limit.

Action logs shows action related to VPS management that were carried out through VzPP

You may also click on detail for more information

This way, you will be able to view all the logs on your VPS Hosting package through your Virtuozzo Power Panel

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Plesk Control Panel Login Through Virtuozzo Power Panel

> Click on Plesk Control Panel on the left-hand side

> Click on Login to Plesk

> Plesk integrated with Virtuozzo and allows you change the admin password through Virtuozzo.

This way, you will be able to manage your Linux as well as Windows VPS Hosting Plesk Control Panel.

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VPS Connection Via SSH

> SSH allows you to remotely connect to your VPS with the help of basic linux command line.

> Please make sure you have access your Virtouzzo Power Panel in browser prior to SSH login

> Click on SSH connection with login and password

> You will notice the terminalis open and you are logged in your VPS Hosting

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Managing System Processes on a VPS

> Click on system processes

> you will notice list of processes running on the VPS.

> you may select all the processes

> you may also send the signal such as follows :

Term : Termination
Kill : Kills all the processes
Stop : Stops or rather suspends the processes
CONT : Resume processes after it has been stopped
HUP : Hang-up, normally provided to a daemon process to re-read its configuration

This way you will be able to manage the processes on the VPS Hosting

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Managing System Resources on a VPS

Click on System Services

You may view list of services that are currently running on the VPS Hosting such as IPtables. On the dashboard of these services, you will find options such as the current status / autostart and also restart.

All the system services can be managed through Virtuozzo Power Panel

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Resource Monitoring on a VPS Hosting

> Click on Resources

> You will be able to view CPU / System / Bandwidth / Disk Space/ Disk Inodes

> click on details

> CPU parameters is a postive integer number that determines the minimal guaranteed share of the CPU time your VPS will receive. For stopped VPS’s, parameter is not available.

> You will notice the similar results for the other resources in your VPS Hosting such as current use, soft limit and hard limit values.

This way you will be able to monitor your resources.

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Mount | Unmount VPS in repair Mode

Repairing a VPS normally solves problems with functioning of VPS. This means the VPS is mounted in repair mode. This normally means VPS is temporarily created from scratch with the same network and other parameteres as the broken VPS and the root directory of the broken VPS is mounted as /repair into the newly created VPS.

> You can also login via SSH and repir it manually or you can save your database and restore it to your newly installed VPS.

> Click on Repair Mode

> Run to mount the VPS

> login to SSH through SSH connections with login and password

Now once you login, change the /repair directory to confirm the files have been copied

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cd / repair

ls
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At this point of time, you can repair or copy files to a safe location

The repair process needs to be complete

click on repair mode and click “finish repair”

The next step is to start vps from start/stop VPS option

You will now need to mount and unmount the VPS Hosting in repair mode.

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How to Start or Stop your VPS Hosting Package through Virtuozzo Power Panel ?

Start or Stop VPS Hosting through Virtuozzo Power Panel

> On the top of the Power Panel Interface, you will always notice VPS status such as “VPS is running now”

> On the left-hand side, you will find Start/Stop VPS

Once you click on it, you will find the next three options which are as follows :

Reboot VPS : Allows Rebooting VPS

Stop VPS : Stops VPS on a single Click

Fast Stop VPS : Now Two minutes delay, stops the vps immediately.

The status of the VPS is shown on the Top.

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