From the Engine Room – Pinkeye Graphics

How, and why, to disable deprecated TLS versions in your Plesk for Linux server

TLS, and its predecessor SSL, are protocols for browsers and web servers (amongst other things) to exchange encrypted data. So if you're running a web…

Pinkeye9th August 2020

From the Engine Room Wordpress

What’s the difference between wordpress.org.and wordpress.com?

Wordpress powers over 30% of the internet - that makes it very popular indeed. But did you know there are different varieties of Wordpress? Confusingly,…

Pinkeye17th April 2018

From the Engine Room Wordpress

How to remove ads and promos from Plesk

We use Plesk to run one of our bigger servers, and it's been pretty useful. Every now and again Plesk updates and slips a few…

Pinkeye3rd January 2018

From the Engine Room How to Wordpress

Using Font Awesome with minileven WordPress mobile theme

If you're using Font Awesome in your Wordpress posts and pages you may have noticed that it stops working when you view the page in…

Pinkeye2nd November 2015

From the Engine Room Wordpress

WordPress menu and widget editing stops working – and how we fixed that.

Making a Wordpress website for a client we had a ferocious load of plugins on board. Any Wordpress web designer knows that this can be…

Pinkeye21st June 2015

From the Engine Room

For Centos servers an update for the nss-softokn package caused problems with curl and nss [fixed]

We updated our server on 15 January with the usual updates, but noticed an error afterwards in connection with the package nss-softokn-3.14.3-19. This seemed to…

Pinkeye19th January 2015

From the Engine Room How to

Installing Crashplan on a Synology Diskstation

Backing up using a cloud-based backup service is a really good idea. We like Crashplan, and we have used it for a while. In fact,…

Pinkeye4th March 2014

b2evolution

b2evolution v4: Fatal error: Class ‘CommentList’ not found

We've just been updating all our b2evolution blogs from version 2 to version 4. It's been a while since that we did such an update,…

Pinkeye23rd June 2013

From the Engine Room How to

How we reduced incoming spam by 99%

About twice a year Matt from Pinkeye pokes his head around the virtual email filters and goes looking at the spam in person. It's not…

Pinkeye22nd May 2012

From the Engine Room

Using CoralCDN to accommodate peak demands on a static website

We run quite a few websites from our fairly modest servers which we host at the highly-recommended eUKHost. Most of these are websites that are…

Pinkeye4th October 2011