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So you have a plesk backup file and you want to extract and open the files from it? No problem. This blog will show you how. The file is a mime file. The "mpack" package will let you unpack it. First we install the "mpack" package PLAIN TEXT CODE: sudo apt-get install mpack Let's imagine [...]

So, you've just moved a magento setup from one host to another, and you want to check if the email setup is correct, how do you do it? The simple easy way to do this is to have a test front-end user (which you probably already have) and send a password change email to the [...]

One of the things that can catch you out if you have a paranoid server admin is that various magento extensions will contact external servers (such as SagePay or Mailchimp). If the server admin has blocked outbound web traffic (to avoid DDoS attacks and other malicious traffic), these extensions will slow you down at every [...]

It may be obvious but after a discussion in the office we decided to put together a simple guideline for getting into e-commerce. This is a list of things that you need to do in order to start selling from your own web site. Get a Domain Name These are so cheap yet so fundamentally [...]

If you are looking to gain the most out of your Magento hosting and to optimise your Magento hosting stack, here are a few top tips that you can try. 1. Ensure Caching is Enabled It may sound obvious, but if you do not have caching enabled then the performance of your Magento store is [...]

Edmonds Commerce have been with Magento since the beginning. If you would like us to optimise your VPS or dedicated server for Magento then please get in touch today. Back then the speed of Magento was one of its main drawbacks. Since that time, the code has improved a lot and things have generally got [...]

If you get the error: Got error 28 from storage engine query When you are trying to access your web site, database or phpMyAdmin then the problem is likely to be that you have run out of hard disk space. If you have command line access you can quickly check this by running PLAIN TEXT [...]

To try to help clients who are choosing a hosting platform for Magento, we have modified the already available Magento Check script and extended it to also check for optimisation and some other key requirements. you can see the script here: I'm using a snipt rather than pasting the code directly in so that if [...]

If you are hosting a Magento site on cPanel powered hosting and are relying on the cPanel backup system to manage backing up your files then you need to be aware of this issue. After a recent upgrade, cPanel has started to ignore any code inside a core/ directory when doing backups. Of course this [...]

If you need to move your osCommerce (and derivatives such as CRE Loaded and Zen Cart) based site to a new server, here is a quick explanation of our approach which enables you to handle the migration without any downtime and no loss of order or customer information despite the fact that in the propagation [...]