Elvis Plesky

Our fun and curious team mascot's always plugged into the latest trends. He's here to share his knowledge and help you solve your tech problems.

Joined: November 14, 2017
Articles: 321

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What Are WordPress Salts and How Do They Protect Your Site?

What are WordPress salts? Here’s the short answer: they can help protect your WordPress website by storing user passwords and authenticating them safely. But what about the long answer? In this guide to WordPress Salts, you will find: A detailed…

Elvis Plesky
December 23, 2022

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NGINX Performance Tuning Tips

NGINX is an open-source, free web server used for a wide range of topics including mail proxy, reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTP caching. Solution provides a high standard of performance with low weight, and while it is still fairly…

Elvis Plesky
December 20, 2022

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Debugging in WordPress Explained

Any WordPress user knows that website problems are, sadly, unavoidable from time to time. Even the best coding is never perfect, after all. So, eventually, you may need to face the complexities of debugging in WordPress. But don’t worry: it’s…

Elvis Plesky
December 20, 2022

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TLS vs SSL: What Is The Right Choice?

Meet TLS and SSL: two protocols designed for the safe, secure authentication and transportation of data online. Is one better than the other? And if so, why? In this in-depth guide, we will explore the most important differences between both…

Elvis Plesky
December 12, 2022

Podcast Season 3

Podcast | Learning and Teaching Development with Carrie Dils

They say those who can’t do teach, but that’s certainly not the case for Carrie Dils. Her path from Starbucks Barista to Frontend Developer for Fortune 100 companies is an incredibly interesting one that includes starting and leaving web development…

Elvis Plesky
December 12, 2022

Podcast Season 3

Podcast | Forging Your Own Web Development Path with Tracy Apps

Welcome back to the Plesk monthly podcast, where we explore the world of hosting, DevOps, and more! This month, we’re taking a closer look at how to get started as a developer. A common story among WordPress developers of a…

Elvis Plesky
November 8, 2022

Podcast Season 3

Podcast | Making WP-CLI Work for You with Alain Schlesser

Welcome back to the Official Plesk Podcast, Next Level Ops! This week we’re taking a deep dive into WP-CLI, a popular tool for our WordPress community! WP-CLI is a command-line interface that is able to execute WordPress code, as well…

Elvis Plesky
October 11, 2022
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Containers vs Virtual Machines – What Is The Difference?

What are containers? They serve as operating systems for applications to work with, limiting the amount of systems based on the types of apps involved. They’re lightweight and don’t demand as much storage space as virtual machines. Containers deploy and…

Elvis Plesky
September 26, 2022

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Laravel vs Symfony: How Do They Compare?

In the United States, PHP adoption continues to spread among businesses on different scales: at the time of writing, this language is used to power more than 14 million websites and counting. Before they start working on a PHP web…

Elvis Plesky
September 26, 2022

Podcast Season 3

Podcast | The Increasing Importance of Hyperscalers with Darian Wilkin

Just 10 years ago, the common way to manage your infrastructure for many enterprises and large organizations was to do it themselves – something referred to as “on prem,” for on premises. As you can imagine, there are a lot…