Plesk is one of the most widely used web hosting control panels in the UK, deployed across thousands of shared hosting environments, VPS setups, and dedicated servers. Its appeal lies in the balance i...
Plesk backups can fail silently or with an error notification — either way, a failed backup means your data is unprotected. The most common causes are insufficient disk space, a backup storage destina...
FTP connection failures in Plesk typically fall into a few distinct categories: the FTP service not running, firewall rules blocking the required ports, a passive mode misconfiguration, or incorrect F...
Changing PHP version in Plesk is straightforward in theory — Websites & Domains → PHP Settings → select version — but the change sometimes appears not to take effect. The site may continue running...
A MySQL connection error in Plesk — typically displayed as “Error establishing a database connection” (in WordPress) or a similar message — means either the database service is down, the c...
When a website on Plesk displays the default “Plesk Default Page” or a generic Apache/Nginx welcome screen instead of the actual site content, it usually means the web server cannot find o...
SSL certificate issues in Plesk fall into two categories: certificates that fail to install initially, and Let’s Encrypt certificates that fail to auto-renew. Both are common, and both have a de...
Email problems in Plesk can affect sending, receiving, or both — and the cause is rarely obvious from the error message alone. Common culprits include misconfigured DNS records (particularly SPF and M...
A 500 Internal Server Error in Plesk typically means something has gone wrong at the application or server configuration level — not with Plesk itself. The error appears in the browser when a PHP scri...