Specifying Hosts Used for Publishing Sites

In Plesk Sitebuilder, user sites can be published:

• To remote FTP servers (including servers running Parallels Plesk for Windows or Parallels Plesk for Linux/Unix). This option corresponds to the FTP publishing mode in site publishing settings.
• To Parallels Virtuozzo Containers on servers running Parallels Business Automation, Standard. This option corresponds to the VPS publishing mode in user site publishing settings.
• To local Plesk Sitebuilder server using XCOPY technology. This option corresponds to the XCOPY publishing mode in site publishing settings.

  We recommend using XCOPY technology for publishing on local Plesk Sitebuilder host only, as this method is insecure and requires writing permissions on the specified publishing location.

The maximum number of hosts you can register in Plesk Sitebuilder is determined by your license (navigation pane > Server > License Management > Plan Info tab). Depending on the number of available hosts, there can be two ways of introducing a new publishing host to Plesk Sitebuilder:

• If the maximum number of hosts is Unlimited, you (and your dependent users with access to site publishing settings) can publish sites to any FTP server at their disposal. To publish site to a host, you do not need to register it in Plesk Sitebuilder - just to specify it in the site publishing settings. After you save the site settings, the server is automatically registered as a Plesk Sitebuilder host.
• If the maximum number of hosts is limited, then to be able to publish a site to a remote host you need to first register the host in Plesk Sitebuilder.

Note: In the basic Plesk Sitebuilder license, only one host is available. To be able to publish sites to more than one remote server, contact Parallels sales for additional license with Multi Server Publishing support included.

With Multi Server Publishing license, you - and your users whom you allow to modify site publishing settings - can publish sites to any FTP server or Virtuozzo Container at their disposal.

To proceed to managing hosts, from the navigation pane, go to Server -> Hosts.

For information on how to operate with list objects, see Working with Lists.

Prior to publishing dynamic sites to a host, make sure that this host meets all Plesk Sitebuilder requirements. To do so, read Requirements to Host, further in this section, install and configure the described components, and then verify the settings for Plesk Sitebuilder consistency.