Download a Free 15-day trial of Parallels Plesk 12 Today! Attention: Only deploy the Parallels Plesk Trial on servers dedicated for this purpose. Control Panel software is designed to take full control over the server it is allocated to and cannot be deleted without reformatting the server. To view the Release Notes for the previous version, Plesk 12.0, see the Release Notes for Plesk for Linux or Plesk for Windows. To see the latest version of Plesk 12.5, visit our demo server.
How To Install Plesk 12 on Windows Server
Plesk is a commercial web hosting platform. Originally released under the U.S. company Plesk Inc. and designed in Novosibirsk, Russia, Plesk was acquired by SWSoft in July 2003. SWSoft renamed themselves under the Parallels name (a brand which had been acquired by SWSoft) in 2008. In 2015 Parallels rebranded the service provider business unit to Odin. In December 2015 the Odin brand was acquired by Ingram Micro rendering Plesk a separate business entity.Prerequisites
At least a 1GB VM with RDP access to the server.A Plesk license. Visit the official site for details.Download Plesk
Download the latest Plesk build from the official Plesk website.Download Plesk License
Install Plesk
Installing Plesk is as easy as installing a normal application.Once you have obtained the plesk-installer.exe file, launch it. A web page will open in your default browser and will ask you for your Windows user name and password.Proceed ahead, the installer will ask you to choose 1 of 3 options. Select 'install or upgrade an existing product'. Next, you will see a page asking for installation directories. You can leave these folders the default, or change them to your liking - it's up to you.You will also be asked to enter an administrator password for your Plesk installation. Make this password as secure as possible.The installation will now begin. It may take over 10 minutes, so please be patient.Finalize installation
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