Posts Tagged ‘plesk’
How to speed up WordPress
This guide includes 9 tips to show you how to take just about any WordPress site to a maximum 1-2 seconds load time. It receives regular updates and was extended in the first quarter of 2020 to include a couple extra bonus tips. If you’ve selected a hosting partner and resources (theme, plugins, etc) that…
Read MoreGetting started with a Plesk reseller account
Plesk 12.5 and newer come with some extremely powerful reseller account controls. Unlike cPanel (and WHM), it’s not necessary to learn how to use two completely different panels, Plesk integrates everything beautifully into one easy to manage panel. That said there are a few things to know about the feature set and best practices for…
Read MoreHow to improve Fail2ban IO Performance
Solution #1: inotify vs gamin If you don’t have it installed already, get python-inotify installed. Fail2ban should then automatically start using that library rather than gamin for log file updates. This is very helpful when it comes to servers with *many* log files. Details on how this is done here. If that doesn’t cut it,…
Read MoreHow to use external DNS with Plesk
Already manage all your DNS records through your domain registrar? Perhaps you subscribe to a DNS service that uses multiple-location and/or anycast redundant DNS servers. You can indeed continue using your existing DNS service, however this makes configuration of things like mail services and new subdomains a bit trickier. When using a Plesk server for…
Read MoreHow to install ioncube loaders for Plesk PHP 7
Plesk 12.5 added the ability to use versions of PHP that were not included by your operating system vendor, so you can install PHP 5.6 and the newest PHP 7, which provides some great performance enhancements over the usual PHP 5.4 and PHP 5.5 found in CentOS 6 and CentOS 7 respectively. The tricky part…
Read MoreEnabling custom 403 error docs with nginx in Plesk
Please note that in order to complete these steps you must have admin access to Plesk. While you would think that enabling “Custom Error Docs” under hosting settings in Plesk, then editing the appropriate document under the /error_docs/ folder in your vhost root would do the trick, unfortunately that’s not the case. Those error documents…
Read MoreHow to create a WordPress staging environment
This guide will show you how to create a staging or development environment best used for testing, troubleshooting, and light development. These steps are specific to WordPress, however much of the same process can be followed for other web apps as well. We’ll refer to it as a staging site in this article, however you…
Read MoreHow to reset or change your FTP or SFTP username or password using Plesk
To reset your FTP or SFTP login details, you will login to Plesk. Here’s how! Login to Plesk Select the “Websites & Domains” tab Choose either “Web Hosting Access” (for your primary system user account — this one works with both SFTP and FTPS) or the “FTP Access” button (for purely FTP accounts) If provided with a…
Read MoreHow do I add an FTP account in Plesk?
Creating FTP Users in Plesk 10 / 11+ With Plesk 10+ you can create additional FTP accounts with access to the directory of your choice. If you would like the user to not have access to any of your web files, then you can configure their home directory to be a folder within a custom…
Read MoreHow do I change my domain name in Plesk?
This question is asked frequently! Sometimes it’s simply because there’s an error when the account was created and other times it’s because the company’s brand name has changed. Regardless of the specific reason for the change, this guide will show you how to change your domain name if you’re hosted with us or otherwise using…
Read MoreHow to create a new email account with Plesk
The following guide will show you how to create an email account, email address, add a mail address within your Plesk hosting environment. Tip: if you’re looking to forward this account to another address, see our guide to creating email aliases and forwards here. Tip: It is strongly recommended to enable Spamassassin SPAM scanning. Click here…
Read MoreHow to setup a domain forward or 301 redirect in Plesk
There are a variety of ways of redirecting visitors from one domain or page to another with 301 redirects being the style of HTTP redirect that is both user and search engine friendly. 301 redirects are a signal to search engines that a particular website or page has moved permanently to another URL. For example,…
Read MoreWhy do I sometimes not have permission to delete files on my own account?
We are asked this question quite regularly and although we have a knowledgebase article outlining how to fix the problem within Plesk, I felt it would be beneficial for many of you to know why it occurs.
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