Publishing Websites Setup

[Speedy059]

I'm a bit confused on this "publishing" part of Sitebuilder. Is it not possible to use Sitebuilder on it's own dedicated server, and then publish websites on different servers? We have customers on Linux servers and Windows servers. However I don't see a way for a user to publish to their website space? Isn't there a way a user could just download all the files and upload it?

Sitebuilder only allows me to enter in 1 host, what if we have many servers that have clients on them? We also have clients with dedicated IP's. I'm not sure how this "1 Host" deal works out.

Any advise is appreciated.

 

[Dmitry Frantsev]

Parallels Plesk Sitebuilder for Linux/Unix is designed to publish sites to a single server by default (Plesk or non-Plesk). It can be the same server where product installed or any other server (for publishing to Plesk for Windows server following article should be used: http://kb.odin.com/en/3471)
If you wish to publish to different servers you need to have appropriate limits on your license. For more information better contact to online sales: https://www.parallels.com/support/online_sales/form/

Actually, there is no way to just upload some files for publication process. There are many nuances and some requirements to publication host also exist - http://www.parallels.com/en/sitebuilder/reqs

 

[Speedy059]

So we would have to buy separate licenses and set this program up on separate servers to publish on Linux servers and Windows servers?

After trying to use this on Linux, it is not user friendly and one of the most difficult "automated" programs I have seen. The publishing method makes no sense, whatever happened to basic FTP uploading?

 

[Dmitry Frantsev]

For the license questions it is better to contact with sales team. They could help you better. With single-server publish license you can publish only into one server (Linux or Windows, it does not meter). But for publication into Windows server there should be Parallels Plesk installed and configured in proper way. For details you should refer to http://kb.odin.com/en/3471.
Actually, publication process is mostly FTP uploading. The thing is that Parallels Sitebuilder has it's own format and it is not possible just upload files from one server to another. Some additional procedures should be performed as destination host checking for requirements...etc.
If you have some specific FTP publication issue, just let me know and I will try to help.