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How to edit php.ini to to increase allowed file size upload on a Plesk dedicated server

Posted by on May 22, 2011 in Plesk | 0 comments

How to edit php.ini to to increase allowed file size upload on a Plesk dedicated server

How to edit php.ini to to increase allowed file size upload on a Plesk dedicated server I’m a big fan of Plesk.  It allows novice system administrators to manage a dedicated server via the web browser.  Plesk is one of the web hosting industries best tools. Plesk is setup in such a way that you won’t want to make PHP changes directly in the /etc/php.ini config file.  You’ll have make those changes within the Plesk configuration for the domain. To do so you’ll have to modify the vhost.conf (or vhost_ssl.conf for anything running under SSL). Here’s...

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Install and configure memcached for Magento 1.5.0.1 on RedHat 5.5

Posted by on May 15, 2011 in Magento | 1 comment

Install and configure memcached for Magento 1.5.0.1 on RedHat 5.5

Magento is a very powerful shopping cart.  Because there are so many requests to the database during each load it’s speed is depentant upon MySQL. Memcached is a memory caching system used to speed up dynamic database driven websites by caching MySQL in RAM. The service allows MySQL database tables to be stored in memory, thus increasing the speed of Magento.Installing memcached on RedHat 5.5 to speed up Magento 1.5.0.1 Magento is a very powerful shopping cart.  Because there are so many requests to the database during each page load it’s speed is bottlenecked by MySQL. The...

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Plesk Auto Login

Posted by on Sep 15, 2009 in Managed Hosting, Plesk, Web Hosting | 0 comments

Plesk Auto Login

PEER 1 Managed Hosting just had a Plesk 9.X training with Todd Crumpler from SWSoft. Plesk 9 has lots of cool features.. I’ll write more about it later. One take away from our meeting is a feature of Plesk that has been available for years. You can embed your username and password into a bookmarked URL sting. This gets around having to type in your Plesk username / password every time you login to the control panel. https://yourserver.com:8443/login_up.php3?login_name=admin&passwd=yourpassword

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