Recent content by awasson

Thanks @IgorG. I'm planning to do this next week.

Hello, I've got a VPS (Plesk 12.5.3) that hosts about two dozen active Drupal 7 powered websites and several Wordpress sites. At the moment the MySQL database engine is at version 5.1.73 but in order to host Drupal 8 sites, I need to update MySQL to a minimum version of 5.5.3. I see that I...

Me again... I'm reviewing the Plesk 11 info in DNS in the plesk-administrator-guide.pdf and came across this paragrpaph: Am I to understand that where it shows <ip> or <domain> it should show the real ip or domain name, or are these tokens that will be interpretted outside of plesk as the...

I have two more questions regarding setting up DNS records on Plesk: 1) In the documentation I came across the following info: This seems to indicate that the default records should work right out of the gate without any need for modification. I'm using Plesk 11, is that so? 2) I am...

I tested that last weekend and you are 100% correct. I have added two more IP's to my plan. Andrew

Yeah, I'm not so sure if only one NS will be working.... My provider said that I can either set up my own name server or use theirs which leads me to believe that whenever I create a subscription in Plesk, records are being created on their name server. That being the case, if I create a...

Yes, I've just been experimenting and my registrar for my main domain name will allow me to assign the same ip number to ns1 and ns2 but if I try to point a domain name to them, I get an error that basically says, you can't point a domain using a duplicate ip. For the time being I've made my...

Great topic and information. I've been developing on the web for about 15 years using a number of providers to host all of the sites in my charge. Finally I decided to purchase a VPS account so I have more control over things and this was my first question. I think all the info covers it but...