Articles posted in Media Temple

Prevent your SSH connection from freezing

Recently I was finding that my SSH connection to a Media Temple (dv) Centos 5 server was freezing. Creating a local config file fixed it. For anyone else suffering the same problem here's how to do it. Read more

Securing Plesk on a Media Temple (dv)3 server

By taking a few simple steps with SSH, FTP and the firewall you can make your Plesk server more secure than the default configuration. Read more

What’s wrong with Plesk

Increasingly I'm growing disillusioned with Plesk and SWsoft the company behind it. For me it is a stagnant product and a lack of competition is the root cause. Read more

Running ExpressionEngine on Media Temple’s (dv) Part 3

In the final part of the series we look at how to optimise the front end code on your site and cut response times by up to 50%. Read more

Running ExpressionEngine on Media Temple’s (dv) Part 2

The second article in the series looking at optimising Apache and MySQL to run ExpressionEngine at optimum speed Read more

Running ExpressionEngine on Media Temple’s (dv) Part 1

In a series of articles I'm going to look at running ExpressionEngine on Media Temple's (dv) Base Server and optimising both ExpressionEngine and the server for optimum performance. Read more