Month December 2019
Proper password security practice is incredibly important – your web services and servers will never be secure if you use weak passwords or ignore best advice around password strength. Poor password security policy can be a single point of failure…
MySQL Performance: Identifying Long Queries
An optimized database server is key to ensuring that apps which rely on MySQL run efficiently. Sometimes all that’s needed to see website and application performance improvements are a few small adjustments, so in this article, we look at some…
AI and Machine Learning
We hear AI term more and more these days, but it’s easy to misunderstand it just following the mass media hype. It has nothing to do with conscious machines – no one knows how to build one of those yet.…
Easy Steps to List All Open Linux Ports
If you wanted to know what you need to do to list all of the open ports in a Linux instance you’ve come to the right place. But, what is a port and why would you want to have a…
Plesk 2019 Highlights: Looking Back on a Great Year
There’s a long, juicy list of events and accomplishments we had at Plesk this year. As we reflect on our Plesk 2019 highlights, we can learn and plan for an even better 2020. So let’s have a look at some…
Did You Know Plesk is Now on Udemy?
Over 10,000 students have already enrolled in our Plesk University courses. And with the announcement of our new cloud hosting course series, we’re expecting that number to rise much, much higher. The Plesk Udemy courses cover how to set up…
The WP Toolkit 4.4 Update
We’ve just released two WP Toolkit updates at the same time: v4.3.5 and v4.4.0 – for different Plesk versions. WP Toolkit 4.3.5 is a “maintenance only” fork of WP Toolkit for Plesk Onyx 17.0 and 17.5. Meanwhile WP Toolkit 4.4…
Plesk Obsidian 18.0 Mass Update and New Partner Controls
This year, we’ve publicly announced the automatic updates to 17.8, from Plesk 17.0 and 17.5. Then, in September, we announced the beginning of the short releases era of auto-updates. Now, we’re sharing the progress we made with auto-updates to the…
Win a Plesk Package by Playing our Plesk ‘Search’ Quiz
Welcome to the Plesk ‘Search’ Quiz! Got your detective hat on? Good – here’s how it works. You can enter the chance to win a package full of Plesk merchandise. All you need to do is correctly complete our crafty…
How HostPress Became Leading Managed WordPress Company with Plesk
Finding the right WordPress hosting solution isn’t easy. So Marcus Krämer decided to build his own. To do it, he needed a hosting business management solution that would run fast and function safely. Today he runs HostPress, a managed WordPress…