Login Plesk for the First Time and Set Admin Password

This article is for those of you who purchased VPS services from us and installed Plesk as the hosting control panel on your VPS/server.


Login With Root

  • To login to Plesk for the first time, do so with the username root and password SSH
  • Login details should have been sent when the server was activated


Setup Admin

  • Logging in with root every time via Plesk panel is not recommended
  • To change it click Administrator in the right corner > Edit Profile.
  • Replace Contact Name with your name
  • Replace the email account with your primary email
  • Then change the password using the Generate password feature provided.
  • Click show to find out your Plesk admin password
  • If so, click OK/Apply
  • Keep your passwords safe


Once installed and want to login Plesk then use the admin username and password that you have set earlier.

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