UKC Re: Plesk SSL Location, Where does Plesk store the SSL cert files?
The Plesk Migration Manager does not migrate any stored SSL certificates, you will need to perform this task manually.
/usr/local/psa/var/certificates
In the event of server failure or migration, you can backup the SSL certificates in their raw format and transfer them to the new server.
Still waiting for DNS propagation after 24 hours? It might help to clear your local DNS cache.
Navigate to chrome://net-internals/#dns and press the “Clear host cache” button
1) Launch Internet Explorer.
2) Click “Tools” then “Delete Browsing History.”
3) Uncheck “Preserve Favorites website data,” and ensure that “Cookies,” “History” and “Temporary Internet Files” are checked, and then click “Delete.”
Click “Start,” “Run,” type “cmd” into the run text box and then click “OK.”
Type “ipconfig /flushdns” into the command prompt and press “Enter.”
It is important for a number of reasons why your web site page load speed is as fast as possible. Our previous article “How to speed up your web page load time” explains the importance of the issue.
Increasing your web site performance usually involves a number of small changes to your web page. Some of Google’s PageSpeed suggestions are easier to resolve than others.
Google’s PageSpeed reports “The following resources have no character set specified in their HTTP headers. Specifying a character set in HTTP headers can speed up browser rendering.”
Specifying a character set in the HTTP response headers of your HTML documents allows the browser to begin parsing HTML and executing scripts immediately.
This is easy if your pages are PHP encoded. Simply add the following line of code to the top of your PHP page:
header(‘Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1’);
Re-run Google PageSpeed and see the warning message vanish!
All domain names parked with UK Cheapest have free access to many resources such as email forwarding, web redirection, DNS management and much more. So there are many reasons why you should park your domain names with us.
If you register a domain name and have not purchased a web hosting service for that domain name during the checkout process then your domain name is considered parked.
What does this mean? It means that your domain name has not been pointed to any specific hosting server and so it is connected to the domain parking server MICROLITE1.COM thus enabling all the services that we provide with all customer parked domain names.
There are situations where your parked domain name may have stopped working or where your domain name was previously hosted and now you want it parked. In these cases there are a number of steps to the process to ensure that your domain name is parked properly.
If you domain name has suddenly stopped working and you have not made any changes to the domain name servers or DNS records recently then your domain name may have expired. Check the expiry date in the Public WHOIS or contact Live Support and ask them to check for you. Renew your domain if necessary.
For your domain name to be parked it must be pointing to the parking name server using the correct name servers. Again, view your name server settings by viewing the the Public WHOIS record, you should see the name servers set as follows:
Name servers:
ns.microlite1.com
ns2.microlite1.com
If your name servers are not set to MICROLITE1.COM as above then your domain name is not pointing to the parking server. Login to your Domain Control Panel or ask Live Support to modify your name servers accordingly. Note that any name server change that you make are subject to a 24 hours propagation delay.
If you domain name is a recent registration then you must allow time for the domain to register and for the new DNS zone to fully propagate the global internet. For .uk domain names you can expect results within 24 hours however for global .tlds such as .com you need to allow up to 72 hours.
The fact that you have reached this far means that it probably is not active. There are a few reasons that this may be the case. The most common is that you have pointed your domain name to the parking name servers but the DNS zone has not been created for this domain.
To confirm whetjer your DNS Zone is active visit IntoDNS and run a report on your domain name.
Ask Live Support to create/recreate your domain DNS zone. The only other problem is that your DNS zone is not valid – possibly after a recent change to your records. Again, ask Live Support to reset your DNS zone as new and re-apply your DNS record modifications carefully. 24 hour Propagation delay rules apply.
Remember you can ask Live Support to apply your DNS changes, simply copy+paste the instructions you received from your new host and our support teams will assist with the modifications.
Why speeding up your web pages is more important than you thinkEven with today’s high performance web servers and mega bandwidth broadband to the home that web site page load speed is a massively important issue – yet many webmasters spend little time on the issue.
Would you be surprised to hear that 40% of users abandon a site that takes more than 3 seconds to load?
We are way past the days of modems and 128k ADSL so you would think all websites would load in an instant. Well, that is not the case. To compensate for the increase in bandwidth many webmasters have bloated their web sites with unneccessarily large images, slow plugin-ins and javascripts that simply are not used. Basically there does not seem to be a need to optimise page load time any more – or is there?
Ten years ago people expected pages to load within 30 seconds. Any slower than that and you would start losing users. Time is short and people demand more these days. Your target today has got to be 2 seconds or less.
Even looking beyond the user experience you will find that page load time is also a factor for search engine rankings, conversion and perception of your brand. So for many reasons, all important reasons, you need to get your page load time in check.
There are a number of tools to help you squeeze the most of your web pages. If you have never optimised your pages before then there are lots of small things you can do increase the speed – you could get 300% with little effort.
The Google Developers are always quick to release super useful tools and PageSpeed is no exception, this should be your first port of call, a simply browser plugin and you’ll get a full report on what is slowing your page speed down and tips on fixing the issues.
My favourite online page speed tester is provided by Pingdom.com, you can compare your site over time and also against other sites. You get a performance grade and a page load comparison against all other tested websites.
Our result: We get a performance grade of 99/100 and our site is faster than 98% of all tested website.
Go to Pingdom now and start to increase your page load speeds as part of your regular webmaster tasks.
