Parallels Plesk Automation
Contents Compact Configuration: Linux Shared Hosting 3 Compact Configuration: Mixed Linux and Windows Shared Hosting 4 Medium Size Configuration: Mixed Linux and Windows Shared Hosting 5 Large Size Configuration: Mixed Linux and Windows Shared Hosting 7 Billing Options 10 Parallels Business Automation Standard... 10 Parallels Plesk Automation Billing Module... 11
C H A P T E R 1 Compact Configuration: Linux Shared Hosting Service type: Linux shared hosting. Volume: 300-600 accounts. Suggested virtualization: Server. Minimum hardware requirements: Intel Xeon 4C; 32 GB RAM; 1 TB disk space, hardware RAID 10. Virtual nodes Roles License keys 1 Server 10 2 Server 300 3 Server 300 4 Server 200 Management node Primary DNS Branding sites MySQL server MySQL server Postfix mail server Parallels Premium Antivirus Secondary DNS Webmail Parallels Plesk Automation Parallels Premium Antivirus
C H A P T E R 2 Compact Configuration: Mixed Linux and Windows Shared Hosting Service type: Linux and Windows shared hosting. Volume: 300-600 accounts. Suggested virtualization: Server. Minimum hardware requirements: Intel Xeon 4C; 32 GB RAM; 1 TB disk space, hardware RAID 10. Virtual nodes Roles License keys 1 Server 10 2 Server 200 3 Server 200 4 Server 200 5 Server VM RAM: 8 Gb; disk space: 200 GB OS: Windows 2008 R2 Management node Primary DNS Branding sites MySQL server MySQL server Postfix mail server Parallels Premium Antivirus Secondary DNS Webmail IIS Web Server MS SQL Server Parallels Plesk Automation Parallels Premium Antivirus
C H A P T E R 3 Medium Size Configuration: Mixed Linux and Windows Shared Hosting Service: Linux and Windows shared hosting; professional mail hosting with SmarterMail. Volume: 1000-2000 accounts. Minimum hardware requirements: Two servers with Intel Xeon 4C; 32 GB RAM; 1 TB disk space, hardware RAID 10; one server with 8 GB RAM and 2 TB disk space. Virtualization: Server. Virtual nodes Roles Licenses Server 1 1 Server RAM: 8 disk space: 20 2 Server RAM: 1 disk space: 20 3 Server 200 4 Server 200 5 Server 200 Management node Branding sites Primary DNS server MySQL Server Parallels Plesk Automation (Unlimited (Unlimited Dedicated) (Unlimited
6 Medium Size Configuration: Mixed Linux and Windows Shared Hosting Server 2 6 Server RAM: 1 disk space: 20 7 Server 200 8 Server VM RAM: 8 disk space: 200 GB OS: Windows 2008 R2 9 Server VM RAM: 8 disk space: 200 GB OS: Windows 2008 R2 10 RAM: 8 disk space: 2 TB; Secondary DNS server MySQL Server IIS server MS SQL Server SmarterMail Server Backup Server 3 Backup node (Unlimited (Unlimited (Unlimited (Unlimited All three servers can also be organized into a Storage cluster. Virtual nodes are stored in a cluster with failure protection.
C H A P T E R 4 Large Size Configuration: Mixed Linux and Windows Shared Hosting Service types: Linux and Windows shared hosting; professional mail hosting with SmarterMail. Volume: 5000-10000 accounts. Recommended hardware: 14 servers with Intel Xeon 4C; 32 GB RAM; 1 TB disk space, hardware RAID 10; one server with 8 GB RAM and 10 TB disk space. Server purpose Server Configuration Quantity 1 Management node 32 GB RAM and 1 TB storage 1 Virtualization: Server 2 Apache Web servers 32 GB RAM and 1TB storage 5 Virtualization: Server 3 IIS Web servers 32 GB RAM and 1TB storage 3 Virtualization: Server 4 SmarterMail cluster 32 GB RAM and 1 TB storage 3 OS: Windows 2008 R2 5 Database servers 32 GB RAM and 1TB storage 2 Virtualization: Server 6 Subscription backup 8 GB RAM and 10 TB storage 1 All servers are organized into a Storage cluster. Virtual nodes are stored in the cluster. The table below presents the suggested initial distribution of containers among nodes. Number of servers Virtual nodes Roles Licenses 1 Server 1. Management Node Server RAM: 30 disk space: 200 PPA Management node Parallels Plesk Automation
8 Large Size Configuration: Mixed Linux and Windows Shared Hosting Server RAM: 1 disk space: 50 Primary DNS server 2-6 Server 2-6. s Four Server s RAM: 4 disk space: 200 Apache Web Server Branding sites 7-9 Server 7-9. IIS Web Servers. Four Server VMs RAM: 8 disk space: 200 OS: Windows 2008 R2 IIS Web Server IIS Web Server 10-11 Server 10-11. DB server. Server RAM: 4 disk space: 200 Server RAM: 1 disk space: 20 Server VM RAM: 8 disk space: 200 GB OS: Windows 2008 R2 MySQL Server Secondary DNS server MS SQL Server 12-14 SmarterMail Cluster. Servers 12-14
Large Size Configuration: Mixed Linux and Windows Shared Hosting 9 Server VM RAM: 16 Disk: 200 GB OS: Windows 2008 R2 SmarterMail Server 15 Subscription Backup Server. Server 15 RAM: 8 Disk: 10 TB; Backup node
C H A P T E R 5 Billing Options In this chapter: Parallels Business Automation Standard... 10 Parallels Plesk Automation Billing Module... 11 Parallels Business Automation Standard Parallels Business Automation Standard is a billing and hosting automation solution for managing and scaling small and medium web hosting businesses. It helps you maximize your revenues; lets you offer a full range of hosting services, including email hosting, shared hosting, VPS, hypervisor-based virtual machines, dedicated servers, domain registration, and SSL certificates. It also enables you to build your reseller channels. Starting from release 4.5, it supports Parallels Plesk Automation as a provisioning platform. Recommended hardware: one server with Intel Xeon 4C; 32 GB RAM; 500 GB disk space, hardware RAID 10. To install PBAS, the following additional virtual nodes are required. Virtual nodes Server RAM: 16 disk space: 50 Server RAM: 1 disk space: 50 Server RAM: 1 disk space: 50 Roles Parallels Business Automation Standard Primary DNS server Secondary DNS server
Billing Options 11 Parallels Plesk Automation Billing Module Parallels Plesk Automation Billing is a highly integrated complete billing and business support module for Parallels Plesk Automation. It simplifies the full life cycle of a hosting business, including ordering; account management; recurring, usage-based, and one-time billing; invoicing; and more. Whether your customers are creating or upgrading website hosting accounts, or registering domain names, Parallels Plesk Automation Billing handles the task automatically, with zero manual effort on your part. By fully automating and streamlining your hosting operation, Parallels Plesk Automation Billing module helps you reduce costs and increase profits while creating a growth path to a telco-grade Parallels Automation infrastructure. To install PPA Billing Module the following additional virtual nodes are required. Virtual nodes Server 30 GB. Roles Billing Module