There was a bug in versions of Plesk prior to 8.3 where the AWStats statistics for the previous months were unavailable. It was a bug within Plesk’s AWStat’s implementation, and it was fixed in Plesk 8.3.
However, the fix only corrected the issue moving forward after the upgrade. There was no automated way to [...]
It seems like I have a conversation like this one at least once a week:
Them: “Hey Major, you’re a pretty nerdy guy, what server distro do you use?”
Me: “I use CentOS 4 right now.”
Them: “CentOS? Why not use something more cutting edge, like Fedora or Gentoo?”
Me: “Well, I like those, but Plesk works really well [...]
I’m really enjoying the Parallels Summit in Washington D.C. this week. The folks from Parallels have been great, and the vendors we have met are selling some pretty tremendous products.
Lots of folks have been asking for a summary of what’s going on after my Twitter posts appeared earlier today. Here’s the latest information [...]
Normally, qmail will be able to process the mail queue without any interaction from the system administrator, however, if you want to force it to process everything that is in the queue right now, you can do so:
kill -ALRM `pgrep qmail-send`
If for some peculiar reason you don’t have pgrep on your server, you can go [...]
Upgrading Plesk from 7.5.x to 8.x will change your Plesk-related MySQL tables from MyISAM to InnoDB. This allows for better concurrency in the Plesk panel when a lot of users are logged in simultaneously. However, some server administrators will disable InnoDB support in MySQL to save resources. This will cause problems after [...]
