Updated on: 01 Apr 2020

In Drupal, the User is a core module of the CMS and is responsible for the user management section of Drupal websites. In this module a global variable is defined which returns the user Id (i.e, uid) of the currently logged user. All the users are stored in users table in the database and once […]

Updated on: 01 Apr 2020

Load balancing is a technique to spread work between two or more computers, network links, CPUs, hard drives, or other resources, in order to get optimal resource utilization, maximize throughput, and minimize response time. Using multiple components with load balancing, instead of a single component, may increase reliability through redundancy. The balancing service is usually […]

Updated on: 01 Apr 2020

The default lock time is 30 minutes. Do not attempt to log in until next 30 minutes and it will get unlocked itself. If you make 3 additonal failed attempts to login, this will lock out the users for an additional 30 minutes. You can manually remove the lock from psa database. Do the following […]

Updated on: 01 Apr 2020

CDN stands for content delivery network in which there a farm of servers separated geographically which helps in faster organizing, storing, and streaming web site content (images, text, video and other static content) to end-users. Rather than serving content directly from the host server to the end-user, the Content Delivery Network moves the content source […]

Updated on: 01 Apr 2020

I am shocked beyond belief to note that www.webhostingtalk.com, the largest web hosting discussion forum on the web, is offline. Its not only offline, its data backups (onsite and offsite) alongwith the current site data has been completely wiped out and the only backup which they have is written on a set of DVD disks […]

Updated on: 13 Apr 2020

PHP has some vulnerable functions which can be used to break into your server if your scripts are not coded securely. You can setup a list of functions in php.ini using disable_functions directive. This directive allows you to disable certain functions for security reasons. It takes on a comma-delimited list of function names. This disable_functions […]

Updated on: 01 Apr 2020

As a trusted webhost for SMEs to large businesses in India, we keep getting queries from our clients on the payment gateway service which they can use on their website. A payment gateway is typically a third party provider which allows you to accept credit card transactions through your website, which they than route on […]

Updated on: 13 Apr 2020

Thumbnail are used by graphic designers and photographers for a small image representation of a larger image. The main advantage of creating thumbnails is that it generates the new image with the proportional dimension of the large image and hence the image resolution and quality remain intact. As the thumbnails are smaller in size they […]

Updated on: 01 Apr 2020

Plesk is a great Control Panel in  the shared hosting environment, but there are a few things that are not available in the Control Panel. For example, you cannot create additional FTP user in Plesk Control panel for Linux (this support is enabled in Plesk for windows).  But some time it is required to have […]

Updated on: 16 Aug 2022

There is an issue with Crystal reports support with Plesk installation . We have found that in spite of  installing the crystal report runtime redistributable package the report won’t show in the web page on any hosted domain in Plesk, but if you run the report under a virtual directory under the default website the […]