VPS Hosting and WordPress

“Once you are on the VPS platform you are able to scale up or down your platform to corespond with growth and any seasonal variations in your site traffic. Perfect for all those bloggers who are slowly growing their site”

Common VPS web hosting FAQs

Bandwidth
The amount of data that can be transferred to and from your hosting space, the higher the number of visitors you expect to receive to your site, the higher the amount of bandwidth you will use. There are multiple ways in which bandwidth is calculated by your hosting provider.
Burstable memory
The amount of memory that [...]

Setting up email through Plesk

How quickly can I create my POP3 email accounts?
After you have transfered your domain sucessfuly to your hosting providers servers it will take between 15 minutes and 24 hours to propagate around the world (may take upto 48 hours in same extreme instances). During the propagation period your newly transferred domain is being updated by [...]

VPS and Blogging

Writing a blog is now a growing popular pursuit whether it is the blog attached to your corporate or personal site, or one that is more personal to you and your interests. By hosting your own blog it allows you to create your very own professional customised look, and we’ve outlined some useful tips to be aware of when hosting your blog on a VPS platform.

Editing Crontab in Plesk

Within Crontab, you will notice a list of system users within the preferences section, select the name of the user for whom you wish to manage the crontab settings, and have, should you choose edit the email settings and have the crontab messages sent to the specified email address.

Data backup through Plesk

“At the end of the day the reasons for backup are many and varied it could be as simple as you doing something wrong, and you wish to correct it or as malicious as hackers targeting your site, getting through and deleting/ modifying your data. At the end of the data, it doesn’t take that long, and it is a worthwhile tool for ease of mind!”

Setting up FTP accounts through Plesk

” …setting up an FTP account you are able to automate site/ account backups on a prescheduled or regular basis, as well as backing up your site/ account data manually to, for example, your own PC…”

Disadvantages of VPS hosting

“So, as you can see a VPS solution is not for every site owner. They are a step up in price and benefits from a shared platform, although to be honest the difference in price between a good shared hosting plan and a good VPS is inconsequential, but still have drawbacks if you are used to the luxury of your own dedicated machine…”

The Web Application Vault within Plesk — A.K.A. Plesk’s hidden gem!

“By using Plesk’s Application Vault, you are able to transfer your site and may even be able to start selling products or services through your site thus making a return on your investment and ofset the costs of your web hosting package”

Managing Frontpage extensions in Plesk

What are Frontpage extensions?
Frontpage extensions are used to allow people who have built their site in frontpage (a now obsolete Microsoft WYSIWYG site builder and editor) to run correctly if frontpage specific functions have been used during the development of the site.
These provide website site builders features and addable functions that can be inserted to [...]

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