Central Customer Administration Page available?

[WhiteKnight]

Hi,

I'm a customer. My provider is hosting about 12 of my domains using Plesk software.

For each of these domains I received a separate e-mail with account information, distributed over the last five years. Some of the information therein became obsolete without me knowing. For some of my domains I got a couple of e-mails with different credential information. For some of them I can't even find any credential e-mails anymore.

I think this is utterly uncomfortable.

So I suggested my provider to create a password protected administration page where customers are able to see their full account information, divided into sections for each domain. For each domain there should be FTP upload credentials and mailbox administration available. Even some statistics perhaps.

My provider told me that Plesk software is not able to do this. So he can't provide me with an administration page for all my domains.

Is this true?

And if it is, is there some free API available for me to program such administration page for him and to grant it to my provider so he will be able to provide a customer focussed administration page?

 

[IgorG]

API documentation is here http://www.parallels.com/download/plesk/11/documentation/
I think that creation of "password protected administration page" is not good idea due to security reasons.

 

[WhiteKnight]

Thanks for replying and pointing me to the API, Igor.

I disagree. Instead, I tend to believe that userName/password protected access via SSL is a well known form to protect sensitive information. Password complexity should be set reasonably high, of course.

But I guess you'd agree that such page would still be far better than the current way of sharing these sensitive administrative information details by plain, unsafe e-mails.

Cheers,
Axel