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Compact Configuration: Linux Shared Hosting
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Compact Configuration: Mixed Linux and Windows Shared Hosting
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Medium Size Configuration: Mixed Linux and Windows Shared Hosting
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Large Size Configuration: Mixed Linux and Windows Shared Hosting
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Billing Options
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Parallels Business Automation Standard ... 10 Parallels Plesk Automation Billing Module ... 11
Service type: Linux shared hosting.
Volume: 300-600 accounts.
Suggested virtualization: Parallels Cloud Server.
Minimum hardware requirements: Intel Xeon 4C; 32 GB RAM; 1 TB disk space,
hardware RAID 10.
Virtual nodes Roles License keys
1 Parallels Cloud Server Container
RAM: 4 GB; disk space: 10 GB;
OS: CentOS 6 / RHEL 6
Management node Primary DNS Branding sites
Parallels Plesk Automation
Parallels Plesk Panel (Unlimited dedicated) 2 Parallels Cloud Server
Container
RAM: 4 GB; disk space: 300 GB;
OS: CentOS 6 / RHEL 6
Apache Web Server MySQL server
Parallels Plesk Panel (Unlimited dedicated)
3 Parallels Cloud Server Container
RAM: 4 GB; disk space: 300 GB;
OS: CentOS 6 / RHEL 6
Apache Web Server MySQL server
Parallels Plesk Panel (Unlimited dedicated)
4 Parallels Cloud Server Container
RAM: 4 GB; disk space: 200 GB;
OS: CentOS 6 / RHEL 6
Postfix mail server
Parallels Premium Antivirus Secondary DNS
Webmail
Parallels Plesk Panel (Unlimited dedicated) Parallels Premium Antivirus
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Service type: Linux and Windows shared hosting.
Volume: 300-600 accounts.
Suggested virtualization: Parallels Cloud Server.
Minimum hardware requirements: Intel Xeon 4C; 32 GB RAM; 1 TB disk space,
hardware RAID 10.
Virtual nodes Roles License keys
1 Parallels Cloud Server Container
RAM: 4 GB; disk space: 10 GB;
OS: CentOS 6 / RHEL 6
Management node Primary DNS Branding sites
Parallels Plesk Automation
Parallels Plesk Panel (Unlimited dedicated) 2 Parallels Cloud Server
Container
RAM: 4 GB; disk space: 200 GB;
OS: CentOS 6 / RHEL 6
Apache Web Server MySQL server
Parallels Plesk Panel (Unlimited dedicated)
3 Parallels Cloud Server Container
RAM: 4 GB; disk space: 200 GB;
OS: CentOS 6 / RHEL 6
Apache Web Server MySQL server
Parallels Plesk Panel (Unlimited dedicated)
4 Parallels Cloud Server Container
RAM: 4 GB; disk space: 200 GB;
OS: CentOS 6 / RHEL 6
Postfix mail server
Parallels Premium Antivirus Secondary DNS
Webmail
Parallels Plesk Panel (Unlimited dedicated) Parallels Premium Antivirus
5 Parallels Cloud Server VM
RAM: 8 Gb; disk space: 200 GB
OS: Windows 2008 R2
IIS Web Server MS SQL Server
Parallels Plesk Panel (Unlimited dedicated)
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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: Parallels Cloud Server.
Virtual nodes Roles Licenses
Parallels Cloud Server 1
1 Parallels Cloud Server Container
RAM: 8 GB; disk space: 20 GB;
OS: CentOS 6 / RHEL 6
Management node Branding sites
Parallels Plesk Automation Parallels Plesk Panel (Unlimited dedicated)
2 Parallels Cloud Server Container
RAM: 1 GB; disk space: 20 GB;
OS: CentOS 6 / RHEL 6
Primary DNS server NA
3 Parallels Cloud Server Container
RAM: 4 GB; disk space: 200 GB;
OS: CentOS 6 / RHEL 6
Apache Web Server Parallels Plesk Panel (Unlimited Dedicated)
4 Parallels Cloud Server Container
RAM: 4 GB; disk space: 200 GB;
OS: CentOS 6 / RHEL 6
Apache Web Server Parallels Plesk Panel (Unlimited dedicated)
5 Parallels Cloud Server Container
RAM: 4 GB; disk space: 200 GB;
OS: CentOS 6 / RHEL 6
MySQL Server NA
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Parallels Cloud Server 2
6 Parallels Cloud Server Container
RAM: 1 GB; disk space: 20 GB;
OS: CentOS 6 / RHEL 6
Secondary DNS server
Parallels Plesk Panel (Unlimited dedicated)
7 Parallels Cloud Server Container
RAM: 4 GB; disk space: 200 GB;
OS: CentOS 6 / RHEL 6
Apache Web Server MySQL Server
Parallels Plesk Panel (Unlimited dedicated)
8 Parallels Cloud Server VM RAM: 8 GB; disk space: 200 GB
OS: Windows 2008 R2
IIS server MS SQL Server
Parallels Plesk Panel (Unlimited dedicated)
9 Parallels Cloud Server VM RAM: 8 GB; disk space: 200 GB
OS: Windows 2008 R2
SmarterMail Server Parallels Plesk Panel (Unlimited dedicated)
Backup Server 3
10 RAM: 8 GB; disk space: 2 TB; OS: CentOS 6 / RHEL 6
Backup node NA
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 Virtualization: Parallels Cloud Server
1 2 Apache Web servers 32 GB RAM and 1TB storage
Virtualization: Parallels Cloud Server
5 3 IIS Web servers 32 GB RAM and 1TB storage
Virtualization: Parallels Cloud Server
3 4 SmarterMail cluster 32 GB RAM and 1 TB storage
OS: Windows 2008 R2
3 5 Database servers 32 GB RAM and 1TB storage
Virtualization: Parallels Cloud Server
2 6 Subscription backup 8 GB RAM and 10 TB storage
OS: CentOS 6 / RHEL 6
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All servers are organized into a Parallels Cloud 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
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Parallels Cloud Server 1. Management Node
Parallels Cloud Server Container RAM: 30 GB; disk space: 200 GB; OS: CentOS 6 / RHEL 6 PPA Management nodeParallels Plesk Automation Parallels Plesk Panel (Unlimited dedicated)
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8 Large Size Configuration: Mixed Linux and Windows Shared Hosting Parallels Cloud Server Container RAM: 1 GB; disk space: 50 GB; OS: CentOS 6 / RHEL 6 Primary DNS server NA
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Parallels Cloud Server 2-6. Apache Web Servers
Four Parallels CloudServer Containers RAM: 4 GB; disk space: 200 GB; OS: CentOS 6 / RHEL 6 Apache Web Server Branding sites
Parallels Plesk Panel (Unlimited dedicated)
7-9
Parallels Cloud Server 7-9. IIS Web Servers.
Four Parallels CloudServer VMs RAM: 8 GB; disk space: 200 GB; OS: Windows 2008 R2
IIS Web Server IIS Web Server
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Parallels Cloud Server 10-11. DB server.
Parallels Cloud Server Container RAM: 4 GB; disk space: 200 GB; OS: CentOS 6 / RHEL 6 MySQL Server NA Parallels Cloud Server Container RAM: 1 GB; disk space: 20 GB; OS: CentOS 6 / RHEL 6 Secondary DNS server NA Parallels Cloud Server VM RAM: 8 GB; disk space: 200 GB OS: Windows 2008 R2 MS SQL Server NALarge Size Configuration: Mixed Linux and Windows Shared Hosting 9 Parallels Cloud Server VM RAM: 16 GB; Disk: 200 GB OS: Windows 2008 R2 SmarterMail
Server Parallels Plesk Panel (Unlimited dedicated)
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Subscription Backup Server. Server 15
RAM: 8 GB; Disk: 10TB;
OS: CentOS 6 / RHEL 6
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 Roles
Parallels Cloud Server Container RAM: 16 GB; disk space: 50 GB; OS: CentOS 6 / RHEL 6
Parallels Business Automation Standard
Parallels Cloud Server Container RAM: 1 GB; disk space: 50 GB; OS: CentOS 6 / RHEL 6
Primary DNS server
Parallels Cloud Server Container RAM: 1 GB; disk space: 50 GB; OS: CentOS 6 / RHEL 6
Secondary DNS server
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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 Roles
Parallels Cloud Server Container RAM: 4 GB; disk space: 30 GB. OS: CentOS 6 / RHEL 6