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Product and technology

Plesk on DigitalOcean is now a one-click app

According to Alex Konrad, Forbes Editor of the Cloud 100 list, Cloud companies like DigitalOcean are revolutionizing how businesses reach their customers today. From digitizing painful old processes to allowing them more time to focus on what they really care…

Joerg Strotmann
November 14, 2018
31 Comments

Tips and easy-reading

Three TED talks on Technology that will blow your mind

We’re living in an era that reveals new innovations on the daily. From automation to complex and brilliant security systems, the future of technology is being shaped by minds like these three whose ideas elevate our minds and spark our…

Elvis Plesky
September 20, 2018
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Product and technology

Migrate to Plesk on AWS from Plesk, cPanel or DirectAdmin

Why migrate to Plesk on AWS? Amazon Web Services is the cloud computing platform by Amazon.com, offering over 90 key infrastructure services such as computing power, storage options, networking, and databases, delivered as on-demand resources with pay-as-you-go pricing. As part…

Lukas Hertig
June 12, 2017
3 Comments

Plesk news and announcements, Product and technology, Security alerts

Critical Kernel flaw discovered – Update your server

KernelCare as the fix for critical kernel flaw

Linux Kernel flaw that has existed for over 10 years in the code has been discovered by Andrey Konovalov, a security researcher at Google. The DCCP (Datagram Congestion Control Protocol) implementation causes this flaw that can lead to kernel code…

Viktor Vogel
February 27, 2017

Business and industry, Product and technology

Industry Insights – Ubuntu vs CentOS, does your Linux OS matter?

When it comes to operating systems (OS), we are spoilt for choice with the likes of Debian, CentOS, Microsoft Windows Server, and Red Hat vying for our affection. But what about Ubuntu? How does it square up to the top…

Tricia Santaguida
February 1, 2017
4 Comments

Product and technology

Deploying Plesk Onyx on Microsoft Windows Azure

Cloud computing provides businesses the ability to quickly scale computing resources without the costly and laborious task of building data centres, and without the costs of running servers with idle capacity due to variable workloads. To simplify dynamic provisioning in…

Joerg Strotmann
November 30, 2016
13 Comments

Product and technology

CheckPassword authentication in Dovecot: a practical example in Shell

In this post I’ll show how to set up authentication in Dovecot via custom CheckPassword script written in Shell. While this is not generally suitable for any kind of production deployment for performance reasons, employing CheckPassword authentication is great for…

nvizovitin
November 18, 2013

Product and technology

Dovecot in Plesk for Linux 12.0!

In Plesk 12.0 previews we present full-fledged Dovecot IMAP/POP3 server support with server-side mail filtering via Sieve. The community asked and we deliver!

nvizovitin
November 4, 2013
26 Comments

Plesk news and announcements, Product and technology

Introducing ‘plesk installer’ (Linux)

Have you ever felt that using Parallels Installer from command line is somewhat daunting? It has a lot of options and you usually need to get required “spell” from KB articles or official forums. For example, to manually install latest…

nvizovitin
August 12, 2013
2 Comments

Product and technology

MariaDB installation guide

Plesk uses MySQL as both admin and client RDBMS. Plesk 11.5 for Linux and higher allows for MySQL alternatives (such as MariaDB or Percona Server) to be used as drop-in replacements for it. Upgrade from installations with drop-in replacements is…