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Troubleshooting (dv) Memory Issues Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 15 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access Applies to: DV Managed Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 15 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access READ ME FIRST Please keep in mind that the DV product is a self-administered hosting s ... Applies To: (dv) 4.0, DV Managed

FAQ: (dv) 3.x Upgrades Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 20 Tools Required: NA Applies to: (dv) 3.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 20 Tools Required: NA Overview This article discusses key points regarding a specific set of (dv) 3.x upgrades we'll be performing starting in April 2013. This o ... Applies To: (dv) 3.0, (dv) 3.5

Making it Better: Basic Apache performance tuning (httpd) Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Hard Time Needed: 60 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 (dv ... Applies To: (dv) 3.0, (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0

How can I see my server's resource usage statistics? Applies to: DV Managed Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 15 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access, AccountCenter access Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Medium Time Needed: 15 Tools Required: Plesk administrator access, AccountCenter access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Medium Time ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0, DV Managed

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: Power Panel login credent ... Applies To: (ve), All (dv)

How do I view my web statistics? 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 The (dv) Dedicated-Virtual Server has a program that tracks your statistics. End of Life Warning Th ... Applies To: All (dv)

How do I change the time zone on my server? Applies to: (gs) Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools Required: AccountCenter access or SSH / FTP access Applies to: (dv) 4.0 Difficulty: Medium Time: 10 Tools needed: SSH or Plesk administrator access Applies to: (dv) 3.5 Difficulty: Medium Time: 10 Tools needed: SSH or Plesk administr ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0, (gs)

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 work-a ... Applies To: (dv) Nitro, All (dv)

(dv) Tech Specs - Complete package listing Applies to: DV Managed 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 Applies to: (dv) 3.0 Difficulty: Easy Time Needed: 10 Tools ... Applies To: (dv) 3.0, (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0

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 The following is a list of paths to commonly used dir ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0, (gs)

(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 admin sectio ... 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 Introduction ... Applies To: (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0, (gs)

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 sum ... Applies To: (dv) 3.0, (dv) 3.5, (dv) 4.0

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 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

(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

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)

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)

(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

(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) 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)

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

(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)

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