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Plesk Takes Care of All Your Anti-Virus Needs

September 28th, 2011

Taking care of viruses after they have done the damage is the normal approach that most users have come to expect from their anti-virus providers. However, why not stop the virus BEFORE it gets to your users’ hosting accounts with a hosting anti-virus program. Plesk has made it simple to do this, and with Plesk Anti-Virus, you can easily detect and remove any viruses before they become a problem or start impacting your website negatively. The Plesk system is very advanced in terms of security, and hosting anti-virus protection is so critical to the long term stability of your website and servers. Plesk anti-virus can help protect your critical data and other valuable information so that it cannot be hacked and stolen by malicious users.

Many software programs offer security and hosting anti-virus protection, but it is simply not as comprehensive as it is with a Plesk License. In addition to Plesk Anti-Virus, you can also utilize the new health monitoring tool so that you can ensure that your system is protected from attacks on all sides. You can set up the health monitoring to occur at regular intervals or whenever you see fit, and this can let you automate the task of keeping your server secure. If you do encounter a problem, the Plesk health monitoring system will notify you immediately, and the Plesk Anti-Virus will work to resolve the issue and stop any infiltration into your system. For hosting anti-virus, Plesk is at the top of the industry.

Typically updates take hours to complete and slows the system down quite a bit during regular scanning. With the Plesk Anti-Virus, you no longer have to worry about this because it has the ability to detect over 100,000 viruses quickly and without affecting your server productivity. Security usually requires a multi-faceted approach so the Plesk Anti-Virus paired with the comprehensive health monitoring system is the essential combination to optimal safety on your virtual environment.

Windows Plesk ASP.NET – Backing Up Your MSSQL Database Using MyLittleAdmin

September 17th, 2009

Windows Plesk ASP.NET – Backing Up Your MSSQL Database Using MyLittleAdmin

There are two methods of MSSQL database backups offered on our Windows Plesk ASP.NET hosting environments. The first is the built in Plesk backup utility, and the second is the backup option within the MyLittleAdmin Webadmin tool. This tutorial will guide you through using the Webadmin backup facility.

Backing up your database with MyLittleAdmin:

  1. Login to your Plesk control panel and select the “Databases” option from the home page.

  2. Select the database you wish to backup and then open the “Webadmin” utility.

    Note: just select “continue” if you get any warnings about encryption.

  3. When the “MyLittleAdmin” web interface opens, select the”tools” menu item on the left and go to the “Backup Wizard (Web Hosting)”.

  4. in the backup section, select the database you wish to backup, name the backup set and then hit the “Backup” button.

  5. Once the backup process has completed you will be preseent with a link to your backup. Just click on the link to download the backup to your computer.

Windows Plesk ASP.NET – Restoring A Backed Up MSSQL Database

September 17th, 2009

Windows Plesk ASP.NET – Restoring A Backed Up MSSQL Database

Restoring an MSSQL database to our Plesk ASP.NET hosting servers requires a few steps due to the way Plesk manages the databases.

Due to security restrictions in our shared ASP.NET hosting environments, it is not possible to use the “attach” feature of MSSQL Server to restore your databse. Therefore your MSSQL database needs to be restored using the web admin tool provided within your Plesk Hosting Control Panel.

NOTE: Before you begin you need to have your database backed up to a .bak file located on your local computer. If your database is currently hosted with another hosting provider, you will need to contact them for assistance with this. You may need to install the database onto your local comtuer and then use a tool such as Microsoft’s MSSQL Management Studio to back the database up to a .bak file.

Restoring your database:

  1. Login to your Plesk control panel, select the “Databases” option from the home page, and then create a new database.

  2. Create a database user with exactly the same login credentials(username and password) as those from your original database. NOTE: This is very important as the restore function will over wtite the users attached to the current blank database.

  3. Now select the “Webadmin” option, and when the “MyLittleAdmin” web interface opens, select the”tools” menu item on the left and go to the “Restore Wizard (Web Hosting)”.

    Note: just select “continue” if you get any warnings about encryption.

  4. in the restore section, select the database you wish to restore to(the one you created earlier) and then navigate to your backup(.bak) file on your computer. Then hit the “Restore Database” button and the process will begin.

  5. The restore process can take some time so DO NOT navigate away from the restore page. Once the process is completed you will be redirected to a confimation page.

Once the restore has finished you may need to reconnect to your Webadmin session if you wish to continue editing your database using MyLittleAdmin. This is easily done by just closing the browser tab or window and opening a new Webadmin session from Plesk.

Troubleshooting

  1. I cannot connect to my database or login to Webadmin after a restore

    This usually happens becasue the username or password contained in the database that you restored from differs from the username and password you used when creating your blank database.

    Solution:

    1. login to plesk and go to the database section
    2. select the database you are having issues with
    3. remove the existing users that are listed
    4. create a new user fro the database

ASP Sending Email Using CDOSYS on Windows Hosting

September 17th, 2009

CDOSYS is a built-in component in ASP. This component is used to send e-mails with ASP.

Sending e-mail with CDOSYS

CDO (Collaboration Data Objects) is a Microsoft technology that is designed to simplify the creation of messaging applications. CDOSYS is a built-in component in ASP and is what is available on our servers for the purpose of sending mail.

To read more on this topic and get some code examples, please follow the link below.

http://www.w3schools.com/asp/asp_send_email.asp

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