Tag WordPress
This month, I was part of WordCamp Brighton – a two-day conference about WordPress topics voluntarily organised by the community, for the community. Plesk was one of this year’s sponsors, so it was doubly exciting for me to experience this WordCamp…
Customer Expectations and How Hosting Companies Can Respond
The high quality of server infrastructure became a commodity. The price race to the bottom is already at the finish line. That is why it is not surprising that many hosting companies look for a different value they could offer…
How to reduce server load and improve WordPress speed with Memcached
In my last article about Varnish in a Docker container, I’ve explained how to easily activate server-side caching and what advantages you can get with this mechanism. Today, I will show you how you can reduce server load and drastically improve…
Plesk Acquired by Oakley Capital
Plesk receives pivotal investment from Oakley Capital and embraces the future of cloud, WordPress management, and DevOps Today, I am excited to share with you that Plesk has completed the separation from Parallels Holdings Limited, having been acquired by Oakley…
How to start your online store with WooCommerce
When it comes to e-commerce, picking the right platform to power your online store is a difficult choice. Whichever one you go with needs to be fast, secure, and feature-filled, so where are you supposed to begin looking? With over…
Plesk now supports PHP 7.1.x
We’re pleased to announce that Plesk Onyx now supports the latest PHP version 7.1.1. The update to PHP 7.1.0 brought developers a bunch of cool new improvements such as Catching multiple exceptions types or Nullable Types. For the full list of…
AutoScaling WordPress Docker with AWS
Do you run your website with WordPress? Ask yourself: “How many concurrent visitors can it handle?” What if your site is an e-Commerce? According to Amazon you lose 1% of sales with every extra 100ms load time. Today, customers expect your page…
HTTP/2 & Let’s Encrypt for WordPress
Our web blog is now meeting the latest security standards and making it HTTP2-ready is easier than you think. Here’s how we switched our web blog ( ) running on Plesk + NGINX to HTTPS and made it HTTP/2-ready…