Technical

Best AI at Coding? None of Them — Until You Make Them Argue

Submitted by Guy Doughty on Thu, 28/05/2026 - 8:33pm
Trying to keep up with the latest Ai is a nightmare because there are new releases every two minutes. Two leaders in the coding field is Codex and Claude. Both have strengths and weaknesses. These change with each release. However, one thing will always be true - none are perfect. They confidently...

Rapid Drupal development using Free Tools inc Visual Studio Code IDE

Submitted by Guy Doughty on Sat, 21/10/2023 - 2:31pm

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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 different ones...

Set up Drush globally for any/all users on Plesk with fallback

Submitted by admin on Sat, 21/10/2023 - 9:42am

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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 will have available Drush...

Empty Mailboxes on Plesk

Submitted by admin on Tue, 16/07/2019 - 10:05am

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Empty older than 30 days (see https://plesk.uservoice.com/forums/184549-feature-suggestions/suggestion... ) find /var/qmail/mailnames/example.com/*/*/cur -type f -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \; Recalulate statistics/usage. (See here: https://support.plesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115004510793-Plesk-usage-...

How to resolve high CPU usage by mail server and large mail queue

Submitted by admin on Tue, 12/09/2017 - 12:55pm

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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 spiking since the websites...

Free 5GB offsite storage for backups; Drupal Websites

Submitted by Guy Doughty on Sun, 15/05/2016 - 7:33pm

This short video tutorials demonstrates how you can make use of free storage from NodeSquirrel. 

Using the Backup and Migrate module we're able to create a backup and then store it over at NodeSquirrel. They offer 5GB for free and that is often more than enough for most website. There is also the option to increase the storage at a fee. 

Having a procedure like this in place is essential for disaster recovery.