Random posts about developing online businesses
Here are the different website topics that we have available. They've mostly been written by our Drupal web developer, Guy Doughty. They include both technical web development and general website topics.
An overview of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) The way We think of SEO is as a process. A process for increasing the exposure / rankings of a website within the "organic" search results. Organic or sometimes called natural search results are the free...
"Content is king!" is a term that has been used between SEOers since it all begun. Today it is no different. Content is still king!!! Everything, when it comes down to it, begins with content. It is the content that will determine your position for any given query or...
You have probably worked out that we're big on Drupal here and Drupal is itself open source. To date every website that we have designed and developed has been built on top of Drupal. Drupal can be downloaded right now for free. A default copy of Drupal will be very basic in...
Here's something that many people don't expect. The About us / me page is one of the most visited pages on any website. This makes sense really. Visitors read a couple pages of "What's in it for me?" ie what you offer and how you can fulfill their needs. Some...
This is a very cool command line tool for Drupal development. It allows us to turn modules on/off. Clear the cache. Run cron. Import configuration. Do Drupal database updates and many many more things. For a full list of commands see this: https://www.drush.org/12.x/commands/all...
So you want to throw yourself into Drupal but don't know how to set up a local development environment. Maybe you've been playing around for a while but know there must be a better tool and have never heard of this. This is for you. In my opinion, as a result of a week trying...
My current version of Plesk Obsidian is 18.0.55. The OS is Ubuntu 20.04.6. Although many of these steps is generic, there are steps that are specific to Plesk. This tutorial is also for dedicated servers and will require root access. After all steps are complete, all users...
Empty older than 30 days (see https://plesk.uservoice.com/forums/184549-feature-suggestions/suggestions/6130933-empty-an-emailbox)
find /var/qmail/mailnames/example.com/*/*/cur -type f -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \; Recalulate statistics/usage. (See here: https://support.plesk....
Plesk now has backup extensions that allow us to connect Plesk to remote cloud storage. This is especially a must for website hosting companies. So if you've been running a separate backup server and using FTP backups, you're in for some real savings! Cloud storage...
First of I am using Plesk Onyx 17.0.17 on Linux using the Postfix mailserver. So all my websites became dreadfully slow over the weekend. On signing into Plesk I could see 70% CPU usage. In the health monitor I could see that the Mailserver CPU usage in services was...