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Plesk is a leading control panel and WebOps platform integrating with DigitalOcean.

Plesk - Simplifying the lives of Web Professionals on DigitalOcean

Plesk is the leading WebOps platform, Webhosting and Web Server Control Panel to build, secure and run applications, websites and hosting businesses. Available in more than 32 languages across 140 countries in the world. 50% of the top 100 worldwide service providers are partnering with Plesk today. Plesk is managing and securing more than 380,000 servers, automating 11M+ websites and at least 19M mailboxes.

Besides simplifying complexity and saving time through automation for developers and sysadmins, Plesk increases the efforts to enable its clients and partners to extend and customize Plesk as an open platform. The rich and open ecosystem over 100 Plesk extensions does not only provide access to even more relevant features targeted at specific audiences, but also enables Web Professionals of any size to generate unique upsell opportunities to their end customers to add value.

What does the Plesk integration do?

The FREE Plesk DigitalOcean extension integrates Plesk with the DigitalOcean DNS service. This web service is highly available and scalable and you can use it as an external DNS service for your domains. The extension will automatically synchronize the DNS zones between Plesk and DigitalOcean DNS.

How to use DigitalOcean DNS with Plesk

  1. You’ll first need to open an account on DigitalOcean.
  2. Then install Plesk using this simple tutorial
  3. After installing Plesk, navigate to “Extensions” inside Plesk itself to reach the Extensions catalog. Then click on “DigitalOcean DNS” and click “Install”
  4. Enter your DigitalOcean API credentials into the Extension and start using it. Done! :)

Any Questions?

Let us know what you think and if you need help, please do not hesitate to contact us through our 24x7 support: Access Support

What’s next?

Our DNS integration is only the first step in our direction of integrating more and more services of DigitalOcean with Plesk to support you better. Stay tuned for more!

Enjoy :)

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Why is is so hard to find a tutorial on this that covers how to actually login, what is the username and password? Really can’t stand the lack of documentation here

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