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# Reviewing Your Hosting Package

To review or select the hosting features available for your account (if your provider delegated the permission to manage the hosting options for your account):

1. Click Setup on your Home page.
2. View or change your physical hosting settings:
   - IP Address. Your domain can be hosted on either exclusive IP address or shared IP address. Choose an address from your service provider's IP addresses pool.
   - Certificate. Shows the SSL certificate used by your domain.
   - SSL support. Secure Sockets Layer encryption is generally used for protecting transfer of sensitive data during online transactions on e-commerce Web sites that run on dedicated IP addresses. SSL certificates that participate in the encryption process are usually applied to a single domain name on a single IP address, therefore, each site that needs SSL protection must be hosted on a dedicated IP address. An exception to this is subdomains, which you can protect with a wildcard certificate. Installing an SSL certificate on a Web server that hosts several web sites with different domain names on a single IP address (shared or name-based hosting) is technically possible, however, it is not recommended: the encryption will be provided, but users will get warning messages on attempt to connect to the secure site. To allow SSL encryption for Web sites, select the SSL support check box.
   - FTP/Microsoft FrontPage Login and FTP/Microsoft FrontPage password. Specify the user name and password that will be used for publishing the site to the server through FTP. Retype the password into the Confirm Password box.
   - Hard disk quota. Specify the amount of disk space in megabytes allocated to the web space for this site. This is the so-called hard quota that will not allow writing more files to the web space when the limit is reached. At attempt to write files, users will get the "Out of disk space" error. Hard quotas should be enabled in the server's operating system, so if you see the "Hard disk quota is not supported" notice to the right of the Hard disk quota field, but would like to use the hard quotas, contact your provider or the server administrator and ask to enable the hard quotas.
   - Access to system. This allows you to directly access the system through a Remote Desktop connection. However, allowing system access via RDP also poses a potential threat to the server security, so we recommend that you do not allow it, leaving the Login prohibited option selected.
   - SiteBuilder support. SiteBuilder is an efficient and user-friendly WYSIWYG web site editor running through the web interface. Leave the Publish site with SiteBuilder checkbox selected to be able to access SiteBuilder and build web site through your Plesk control panel interface by clicking SiteBuilder on the domain management page. The version of SiteBuilder coming in the standard Plesk distribution is fully functional and its use is not limited in any way by the manufacturer (but you can be restricted from accessing it by your service provider).
   - Microsoft FrontPage support. Microsoft FrontPage is a popular web site authoring tool. To enable publishing and modifying the site through Microsoft FrontPage, select the Microsoft FrontPage support and Microsoft FrontPage over SSL support check boxes, and set the Remote Microsoft FrontPage authoring option to allowed.

     Note. Microsoft FrontPage over SSL support is available only when SSL support is enabled on a domain.

   - Support for programming and scripting languages widely used in development of dynamic Web sites and server-side Web applications. Specify which of the following programming and scripting languages should be interpreted, executed or otherwise processed by the web server: Active Server Pages (ASP), Active Server Pages on .NET framework (ASP.NET), Server Side Includes (SSI), PHP hypertext preprocessor (PHP), Common Gateway Interface (CGI), Fast Common Gateway Interface (FastCGI), Internet Server Application Programming Interface (ISAPI), Perl, Python, ColdFusion and Miva scripting required for running Miva e-commerce solutions.

     Note. You can change the version of ASP.NET and PHP you want to use in the corresponding drop-down menu. You can also specify the mode for running PHP applications - CGI, FastCGI or ISAPI.

   - Web statistics. To allow you to view the information on the number of people visited the site and the pages of the site they viewed, select a module in Web statistics drop-down menu and select the accessible via password protected directory /plesk-stat/ checkbox, if required. This will install the selected statistical software module, which will generate reports and place them into the password protected directory. The domain administrator will then be able to access Web statistics at the URL: https://your-domain.com/plesk-stat/ using their FTP account login and password.

     Note. If you change the FTP credentials, web statistics access credentials do not change. The original login and password specified upon the domain creation should always be used for accessing password-protected web statistics directory.

   - Custom error documents. When visitors coming to your site request pages that the web server cannot find, the web server generates and displays a standard HTML page with an error message. If you wish to create your own error pages and use them on your web server, select the Custom error documents check box.

     Note. You can enable the support for all programming and scripting languages, web statistics and custom error documents at once by selecting All services checkbox in the Services group.

   - Additional write/modify permissions. This option is required if your web applications are using a file-based database (like Jet) located in the root of `httpdocs` or `httpsdocs` folders. Please note that this option might seriously compromise the web site security
   - Use dedicated IIS application pool. This option enables the use of dedicated IIS application pool for your web applications. Using dedicated IIS application pool dramatically improves the stability of your web applications due to worker process isolation mode. This mode gives each web site hosted on the server the possibility to allocate a separate process pool for execution of its web applications. This way, malfunction in one application will not cause stopping of all the others. This is especially useful when you are using shared hosting package.
3. Click OK.

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