Plesk notes

Plesk has very good documentation on how to use it. See in particular the Administrators guide

MySQL Passwords on Plesk

When Plesk is setup on linux, the 'root' user is renamed to 'admin' in the portal. The initial password will match your VPS root user password.

Migrations

When importing a site from an older instance of Plesk, we recomend using the provided migration manager built into the panel. This tends to better than manually importing from a backup, as it knows what to do to make all the supported features work. It also supports migration from some other panels.

If using a backup from a different platform, setup the site in Plesk first, and make a note of the connection details, then upload website files as usual and any other content (eg databases). And then you may need to update any configuration in the site files to match what Plesk provided.

Using a Secondary Name Server with Plesk

Plesk runs its own DNS server by default. It is also useful to have a DNS server that runs on a server other than the one with which you are actually hosting the site.

One option to distribute that is to add slave DNS servers, as an example you could use RimuHosting's DNS servers. Our name servers are globally distributed and very easy to get started with through our portal

By default Plesk will not permit 'zone transfers'. A secondary (or slave) server needs to be able to do a 'zone transfer' in order to get DNS information from it's Plesk master. To enable that look under Server > DNS > Allow Transfer ACL, and add any secondary nameserver IP addresses there

Run the following from your VPS command line to get the IP address for that secondary nameserver.

host dnsservername

After you add the ACL entry that server can request a 'zone transfer' and get updated with your IP address details.

If you are using RimuHosting's nameservers as secondaries, then add a zone for every domain you are hosting with Plesk. Then for each zone go to RimuHosting control panel and visit Home > Control Panel > Zone List > Zone: yourzonename > Convert Zone to a
Slave/Secondary Zone. Then enter your VPS' IP address as the master server IP

Our nameservers will refresh themselves with DNS data from your Plesk nameserver. If the RimuHosting nameservers do not load the domains' information, then please check the ACL setting in Plesk.

You may also need to specify to your registrar which nameservers to use (e.g. ns1.rimuhosting.com) for each of the domains or zones you want setup this way.