How do I access my (ve) Power Panel? Applies to: (ve) Server Difficulty: Easy Time: 10 Tools needed: AccountCenter access Overview For your (ve) Server, you can monitor resources, stop/start services, configure firewall rules, repair your server, and more with your Parallels Power Panel. Instructions NOTE: Google Chrome w ... Applies To: (ve)

Plesk first-time setup Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: AccountCenter access Overview Plesk is the control panel for your (dv) Dedicated-Virtual Server 4.0. Instructions Access the control panel You can access Plesk from your AccountCenter. 1. Sign in to the AccountCente ... Applies To: (dv) 4.0

(dv) HOWTO: Retrieve keys Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Overview Whenever you upgrade or downgrade your Plesk domain license for your (dv) Dedicat ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0

How do I purchase a Snapshot Backup? Applies to: All (dv), (ve) Server Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: AccountCenter access Overview The Snapshot Backup preserves the entire state of your server, from the core configuration files down to the emails. Recommended use: Preserve a working version of your serv ... Applies To: (ve), All (dv)

How do I assign an IP address in Plesk? Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Overview Move a domain from one IP address on your (dv) Dedicated-Virtual Server to a new ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0

(dv) How do I enable FastCGI? Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 20 Tools Required: SSH, root access, Plesk administrator access Overview This article will explain how to configure a domain on your ( ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0

(dv) Configuring log rotation Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Overview All connections to the Web server and requests for files that were not found on t ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0, (dv) Nitro

Viewing domains with PHP enabled Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: SSH, root access, vi knowledge Overview There isn't a way in Plesk to see which domains have PHP enabled without individually checking them one by one. One easy alternative to find out which domains have PHP enabl ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5

How do I set the path for open_basedir? Applies to: (gs) Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plain text editor, FTP client or AccountCenter access Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: SSH, root access, vi knowledge Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 10 Tools ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0, (gs)

How do I restore my server using a Snapshot Backup? Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Snapshot Backup, Plesk adminstrator or root access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Snapshot Backup, Plesk adminstrator or root access Applies to: (ve) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0, (ve)

Where are the access_log and error_log files for my server? Applies to: (gs) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: AccountCenter access Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0, (gs)

(dv) 3.5 Auto-tuning your server Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: SSH, root access Overview (mt) Media Temple has a tool that will allow you to easily optimize your (dv) Dedicated-Virtual Server 3.5. MIB (Make It Better) contains preset configurations hosted on our internal reposito ... Applies To: All (dv)

Using Awstats on your (dv) Dedicated-Virtual Server TIP: This page has moved. Please see: How do I view my web statistics? Applies To: All (dv)

How can I see my server's resource usage statistics? Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 15 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 15 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Overview This article shows you the important system parameters for your (dv) Dedicate ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0

(dv) HOWTO: Setting up private nameservers Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 20 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 20 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Overview This article explains how to use your (dv) Dedicated-Virtual Server as an aut ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0

How do I configure AWStats to show the country of site visitors? Applies to: All (dv) Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 20 Tools Required: SSH, root access, vi knowledge Overview By default, AWStats does not show the source country for visitors viewing a domain. Requirements Before you start, this article has the following dependencies: You must have ... Applies To: All (dv)

Why is my vhost file not being used by Apache? Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: SSH, root access, vi knowledge Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: SSH, root access, vi knowledge Overview The most common reason for the Apache webserver not being able to use you ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0

Prevent deletion of Webalizer statistics Applies to: All (dv) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: SSH, root access, vi knowledge Overview Webstats of certain domains are being deleted the beginning of every week. How do I prevent this? This happens when the Incremental directive in Webalizer is not enabled. Requ ... Applies To: All (dv)

How do I enable the server-status page on my server? Applies to: All (dv) Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: SSH, root access, vi knowledge Overview The status module allows a server administrator to find out how well their server is performing. An HTML page is presented that gives the current server statistics in an easil ... Applies To: All (dv)

(dv) HOWTO: Misc. performance tuning Applies to: All (dv) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: SSH, root access, vi knowledge Overview This article will provide further ways to optimize your (dv). The objective of this article is to make configuration changes that will allow your (dv) server to run with less me ... Applies To: All (dv)

System Paths Applies to: (gs) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: None Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: None Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: None Overview System Paths for the (gs) Grid-Service Sendmail ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0, (gs)

How do I set the default site for an IP address? Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Overview You can select and change which of your domains your IP address points to by maki ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0

Monitor your (dv) Dedicated-Virtual Server from your Apple iPhone with iStat TIP: This page has moved. Please see: (dv):Monitor server from an Apple iPhone with istat. Applies To: All (dv)

How do I enable or disable named on my server? Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: SSH, root access Overview BIND is by far the most widely used DNS software on the Internet and is fully compliant wit ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0, (dv) Nitro

Backup Options Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 20 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 20 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Applies to: (ve) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: None Snapshot Bac ... Applies To: (ve), All (dv)

How can I raise Courier-IMAP connections for my server? Applies to: All (dv) Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: SSH, root access, vi knowledge Overview By default, Plesk and the Courier-IMAP email server drastically limit the number of inbound connections to prevent users from opening up too many concurrent sessions. Unfortun ... Applies To: All (dv)

(dv) Tech Specs - Complete package listing Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: None Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: None Applies to: (dv) 3.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: None Overview Here is the full list of all the packages insta ... Applies To: (dv) 3.0, (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0

How do I change the FTP session timeout on a (dv) server? Applies to: All (dv) Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: SSH, Root Access Overview This article has been mirrored from the Parallels Knowledge Base as a courtesy to our (dv) Dedicated-Virtual Server customers. As they are the authoritative source of the information covere ... Applies To: All (dv)

Optimizing your (dv) server Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: None Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: None Applies to: (dv) 3.0 Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 20 Tools Required: SSH, root access, vi knowledge Overview This article will s ... Applies To: (dv) 3.0, (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0

How do I disable SSH login for the root user? Applies to: All (dv) Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: SSH, root access, vi knowledge Overview With a good password, you can limit your exposure to a brute force attack. However, it may still be possible. Although technically unsupported by (mt) Media Temple, the follow ... Applies To: All (dv)

Basic MySQL performance tuning (MySQLd) Applies to: (gs) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: AccountCenter access, phpMyAdmin access Applies to: All (dv) Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 20 Tools Required: SSH, root, vi knowledge Introduction The following is just one simple way to get started with optimizing y ... Applies To: (gs), All (dv)

How do I configure bind to start on reboot? Applies to: All (dv) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: SSH, root access Overview Since most of our customers use the (mt) Media Temple nameservers by default, we have disabled named (bind) from starting during the boot sequence. However, if you are running your own privat ... Applies To: All (dv)

Managing your disk usage Applies to: (gs) Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 20 Tools Required: SSH, AccountCenter access Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 20 Tools Required: SSH, root access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 20 Tools Required: SSH, root access Introduct ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0, (gs)

How do I enable root access to my (dv)? Applies to: All (dv) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: AccountCenter access Overview For security purposes, (dv) Dedicated-Virtual Servers are not provisioned with root access enabled by default. Root access can easily be enabled via the admin section of the AccountCenter ... Applies To: All (dv)

(dv) Developer's Tools Package Listing Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: None Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: None Applies to: (dv) 3.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: None "Developer Tools" can easily be enabled via the ... Applies To: All (dv)

Backing up your server using the Snapshot Backup tool Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Snapshot Backup, Plesk administrator access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Snapshot Backup, Plesk administrator access Applies to: (ve) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Req ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0, (ve)

How do I change the time zone on my server? Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Hard Time: 10 Tools needed: SSH Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Hard Time: 10 Tools needed: SSH Overview Follow these instructions to change the time zone on your (dv) Dedicated-Virtual Server. End of Life Warning This service has a pending End of Lif ... Applies To: (dv) 3.0, (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0

How can I turn off safe_mode on an (dv) Dedicated-Virtual Server with Plesk? Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Medium Time: 10 Tools needed: SSH Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time: 10 Tools needed: SSH Applies to: (dv) 3.0 Difficulty: Easy Time: 10 Tools needed: SSH For a discussion of Safe Mode and security, please see PHP Safe Mode, problems and wor ... Applies To: (dv) Nitro, All (dv)

How do I view my web statistics? Applies to: (gs) Grid-Service Difficulty: Easy Time: 10 Tools needed: AccountCenter access Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time: 10 Tools needed: Plesk administrator access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time: 10 Tools needed: Plesk administrator access Overview Urchin ... Applies To: (gs), All (dv)

(dv) HOWTO: Basic Apache performance tuning (httpd) Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: None Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 20 Tools Required: SSH, root access, vi knowledge Applies to: (dv) 3.0 Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 20 Tools Required: SSH, root access, vi knowledge ... Applies To: (dv) 3.0, (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0

How do I use the Redirect Domains tool? Applies to: (gs) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: AccountCenter access Overview The AccountCenter contains a powerful and easy-to-use tool to create redirects for your (gs) hosted domains. This simple GUI, graphic user interface, allows you to create a 301 Redirect comma ... Applies To: (gs)

Basic troubleshooting & tips for CloudFlare Applies to: (gs) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: AccountCenter access Applies to: All (dv) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: AccountCenter access Applies to: (ve) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: AccountCenter access Overview CloudFl ... Applies To: (gs), (ve), All (dv)

(gs) Is mod_gzip installed on the Grid? Applies to: (gs) Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: FTP, plain text editor or SSH access, vi knowledge Overview Since the (gs) runs the newer Apache 2, mod_gzip has been replaced by the more flexible and configurable mod_deflate. Essentially, this means that if you are s ... Applies To: (gs)

(ve) Server Repair & Diagnostics tools Applies to: (ve) Server Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: AccountCenter access Overview This guide provides instructions on using the Repair and Diagnostics tools. Parallels Power Panel The Parallels Power Panel is where you can go to quickly access simple monitoring too ... Applies To: (ve)

How do I change the SpamAssassin template for messages recognized as spam? Applies to: All (dv) Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 20 Tools Required: SSH, root or sudo access Overview You can add your own template to /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf. There is an example one at /usr/share/spamassassin/10_default_prefs.cf. Requirements Before you start, this articl ... Applies To: All (dv)

Understanding the GPU tool Applies to: (gs) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: AccountCenter access Overview A GPU (Grid Performance Unit) is equal to: 1000 GPUs is equivalent to running a continuous 10% load on one processor for the month. You can use up to 2.78 GPU's per hour and not go over ... Applies To: (gs)

How do I enable CloudFlare? Applies to: (gs) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: AccountCenter access Applies to: All (dv) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: AccountCenter access Applies to: (ve) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: AccountCenter access Overview CloudFl ... Applies To: (dv) 4.0, (gs), (ve)

How do I disable the CloudFlare service? Applies to: All Service Types Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: AccountCenter access Overview The CloudFlare service can easily be disabled for any domain, at any time, in your AccountCenter. Instructions Log into your AccountCenter. On the Overview page, scroll down to ... Applies To: (dv) 4.0, (gs), (ve)

How do I add a subdomain to CloudFlare? Applies to: (gs) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: AccountCenter access Overview You can easily add a subdomain to your CloudFlare service. This article will show you how! A subdomain is a domain that is part of a top-level domain. For example, example.com is a top-level ... Applies To: (gs)

Plesk users explained Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Overview Plesk 10 incorporates many different kinds of users. Some are specific to the Plesk control panel suite, while others are used on web servers everywhere. Understanding the kinds of ... Applies To: (dv) 4.0

System Paths for (dv) 4.0 TIP: This page has moved. Please see: System Paths. Applies To: (dv) 4.0

Developer Tools package list for (dv) 4.0 TIP: This page has moved. Please see: (dv) Developer's Tools Package List. Applies To: (dv) 4.0

(dv) 3.5 Tech Specs - Complete package listing This page has moved. Please see (dv) Package List. Applies To: (dv) 3.5