SWSoft Upgrades Hosting Automation Software

The new control panel, titled Plesk 7 Reloaded, was announced on Wednesday and is designed to enable hosting providers to simplify the management of Linux, FreeBSD, UNIX and Windows servers. It offers more than 50 new features.

According to Kurt Daniel, director of marketing at the Herndon, Va.-based firm, Plesk 7 Reloaded incorporates anti-virus and anti-spam features, automatic upgrade capabilities, as well as a deeper integration with other SWsoft products such as Virtuozzo and HSPcomplete.

"One of our core strengths has always been our development team constantly retooling and reloading our solutions with new capabilities," he said. "Plesk 7 Reloaded provides and even cleaner and easier to use interface."

Daniel noted that, with the help of the product's built-in Migration Manager, hosting providers can migrate from older versions of Plesk, in-house systems, cPanel, Ensim or Cobalt control panels.

He added that the new control panel also offers different default languages that can be selected during install, complete international language packs, support for International Domain Naming conventions and characters, and a UTF8 interface redesign that will recognize characters from any native language.

Plesk 7 Reloaded is available to SWsoft channel partners now. Pricing on the upgrade was not immediately available.