{"id":11229,"date":"2025-01-23T07:10:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T07:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trustedhosting.in\/blog\/?p=11229"},"modified":"2026-04-14T13:02:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T13:02:41","slug":"how-to-create-your-first-plesk-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/how-to-create-your-first-plesk-server\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create Your First Plesk Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/How to Create Your First Plesk Server\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11498 size-full\" title=\"How to Create Your First Plesk Server\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ChatGPT-Image-Apr-14-2026-06_31_12-PM.png\" alt=\"How to Create Your First Plesk Server\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ChatGPT-Image-Apr-14-2026-06_31_12-PM.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ChatGPT-Image-Apr-14-2026-06_31_12-PM-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ChatGPT-Image-Apr-14-2026-06_31_12-PM-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/ChatGPT-Image-Apr-14-2026-06_31_12-PM-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1>How to Create Your First Plesk Server<\/h1>\n<div class=\"instructions screensteps-textblock\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<div id=\"text-content_1fae78d8-f994-4cf3-83d3-e297baa66a8b\" class=\"text-block-content\">\n<p>Before you can sell and provision hosting accounts, you must add at least one server to your WHMCS installation. The steps below create a Plesk server in WHMCS.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"step step-depth-1\" data-step-uuid=\"95de09c3-ab23-43fa-bb13-44f216d90d24\">\n<h2 id=\"creating-a-plesk-server\" tabindex=\"0\">Creating a Plesk Server<\/h2>\n<div class=\"instructions screensteps-textblock\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<div id=\"text-content_81ee3c0e-55dc-4e9d-90a9-42223e6670d9\" class=\"text-block-content\">\n<p>To add your server to WHMCS:<\/p>\n<p>1. Create an API token on the Plesk server. For steps to do this, see\u00a0Plesk&#8217;s documentation.<\/p>\n<p>2. Log in to the WHMCS Admin Area.<\/p>\n<p>3. Go to\u00a0<strong>Configuration &gt; System Settings &gt; Servers\u00a0<\/strong>(<strong>Setup &gt; Products\/Services &gt; Servers\u00a0<\/strong>in WHMCS 7.10 and earlier).<\/p>\n<p>4. Click\u00a0<strong>Add New Server.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>5. Select\u00a0<em>Plesk\u00a0<\/em>for\u00a0<strong>Module<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>6. Enter the server hostname or IP address and your Plesk reseller username and password.<\/p>\n<p>7. If you have a non-standard (<code>8443<\/code>) port for Plesk, enter the \u00a0port number in the\u00a0<strong>Access Hash<\/strong>\u00a0section.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11230\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trustedhosting.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/671839f6-a068-44c4-9033-7186ef4fb450.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/671839f6-a068-44c4-9033-7186ef4fb450.png 486w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/671839f6-a068-44c4-9033-7186ef4fb450-300x176.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"instructions screensteps-textblock screensteps-wrapper--tip screensteps-wrapper\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"status\" aria-label=\"tip\">\n<div id=\"text-content_ce41577a-99fa-4f73-bf3d-7da3be9fa9cf\" class=\"text-block-content\">\n<p>For help with these details, contact your hosting provider or system administrator.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"instructions screensteps-textblock\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<div id=\"text-content_cc63da9e-f546-409f-8d7e-38db6baf75c6\" class=\"text-block-content\">\n<p>8. Click\u00a0<strong>Test Connection<\/strong>\u00a0to ensure that WHMCS is able to communicate. A success message will appear.<\/p>\n<p>9. Click\u00a0<strong>Save Changes<\/strong>. The\u00a0<strong>Servers<\/strong>\u00a0interface will appear, displaying the newly-added server in the list.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11231\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trustedhosting.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/3f7fcc98-96eb-4173-9079-ef2f6868d526.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"597\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/3f7fcc98-96eb-4173-9079-ef2f6868d526.png 597w, https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/3f7fcc98-96eb-4173-9079-ef2f6868d526-300x93.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Create Your First Plesk Server Before you can sell and provision hosting accounts, you must add at least&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whmcs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11229"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11500,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11229\/revisions\/11500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webystrata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}