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(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

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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)

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(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

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(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

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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

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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)

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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)

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(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)

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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

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(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

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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)

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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

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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

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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)

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(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

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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

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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)

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(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)

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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)

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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

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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)

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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)

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(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