Depending on your Web Hosting package, here are some of the operations that you can perform in your Plesk (shown in the Account > Permissions tab):
Manage resource records in the DNS zones of websites. DNS stands for Domain Name System. It is a service that enables web browsers to locate websites by domain name.
Manage web hosting settings, such as custom web server settings or support for scripting languages.
Adjust common PHP settings (such as safe_mode, open_basedir, and so on) for your websites.
Securely connect to the server to manage files and upload web content through a Secure Shell (Linux) or a Remote Desktop (Windows) connection.
Set up a folder on the server that should be accessible to Internet users over the FTP protocol. This folder can have an address like, for example, ftp://downloads.example.com. This feature is called anonymous FTP because the users will not need to specify a username and password to browse, download, or upload files.
Schedule execution of programs or scripts in the server’s operating system.
Set custom settings for protection from unsolicited commercial email, also known as spam.
Set custom settings for protection from viruses and other malicious software that spreads through email.
Use Plesk’s Backup Manager tool to back up and restore subscription data: websites, mail accounts, databases, logs and statistics, custom error pages, mailing lists, SSL/TLS certificates, and DNS information, and keep your backup files on the same server as Plesk.
Use the Plesk’s Backup Manager tool to back up and restore subscription data: websites, mail accounts, databases, logs and statistics, custom error pages, mailing lists, SSL/TLS certificates, and DNS information, and save your backup files to an FTP directory on a server that you specify.
Use the Plesk’s Backup Manager tool to back up and restore subscription and account data, and use the storage on the Plesk server for keeping backups. Note that this type of backup is not available by default to prevent confusion with subscription backup (without account data).
Use Plesk’s Backup Manager tool to back up and restore subscription and account data, and use external FTP servers for storing backups. Note that this type of backup is not available by default to prevent confusion with subscription backup (without account data).
Set custom preferences for visitor statistics reports.
Set custom preferences for recycling (rotation) of web server logs. The web server records information about connections to your sites and errors that occur on attempts to retrieve missing files. You can use these log files for website debugging purposes.
View and install applications on websites.
Manage WordPress instances installed on your websites using a single management interface.
Manage the security options available in the WordPress Toolkit.
Set up potentially insecure web scripting options that override the provider’s policy. This allows you to override the hosting security policy if it is applied by the provider.
Set up and manage new websites.
Set up and manage new websites with addresses like forum.example.com.
Set up and manage additional domain names for a site.
Set up and manage additional FTP accounts. To enable collaboration on website content, you can set up FTP accounts for other users and specify which directories of the site should be accessible to them.
Install and manage Java applications distributed in WAR archives and obtained separately from third-party vendors or application developers.
Manage mail server settings, such as selecting the webmail client or turning the mail service for a domain on or off.
Set up and manage mailing lists.
Limit the bandwidth and number of connections to websites.
Adjust hard quotas on disk space if that is supported by your customer account.
Select a database server for creating databases, if multiple database servers are available.
Set up custom remote access control settings for database user accounts.
Website Copying. Copy the content of one of your websites to another website or to an FTP storage.
Protect one or more directories of your website with passwords. Visitors will be prompted for a password when they browse the protected directories.
Manage additional user accounts.