[UPDATE: Added instructions for Plesk 11 for (dv) 4.0 servers] I’ve put a few additional domains on my Media Temple (dv) 3.5, and it’s been great. One thing that was bugging me was not having an easy way to tell which domains were generating which scripting errors. When it was just my site, things were [...]

Some additional memory usage reductions I’ve made, after applying these configuration changes to my VPS at MediaTemple. Limiting number of Plesk PSA connections When you go to your Plesk administration page, you’re accessing a special webserver over SSL. The webserver process is httpsd, and it’s larger than the stock httpd process, using up another precious [...]

Screenshots I’m still figuring out exactly what all these parameters tell me, so take this section with a grain of salt. This is the output of cat /proc/user_beancounters. The two blue lines, privvmpages and physpages, are the amount of current allocated memory and actual used memory respectively. The The two orange lines vmguarpages and oomguarpages [...]

This article applies to an older version of the Media Temple (dv) service from 2007. You may want to check Media Temple’s knowledge base for updated information. I’m running a (dv) Base system from Media Temple, which is their 256MB version. This is their lowest-end server configuration, which is actually a virtual server sharing the [...]