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Design Beautiful Websites! A new self-service website builder is available for web hosting customers!
A new website builder is now available to our web hosting customers. Easily create professional websites without coding or hiring a designer. Pick a template, customize it with our drag & drop editor, and click “publish” to go live. Sitejet Builder for Plesk lets you design your own website directly from your Plesk control panel. It has all the tools you need for website building, no coding required. Contact us with any questions.
Is your hosted email domain ready for Google’s & Yahoo’s DMARC requirements?
Starting in February of 2024, Google, Yahoo, and others, will begin requiring that DMARC, SPF, and DKIM, be properly set up on your domain name, if you will be sending email, from your email domain, to them. DMARC, SPF, and DKIM, help authenticate email senders by verifying that the emails came from the domain that they claim to be from.
You can check your domain name, to see if DMARC has already been set up, by using this DMARC Check tool.
Contact us, to set up an appointment, to review your domain, and make sure DMARC is properly set up, so you don’t have trouble sending email to those providers beginning in 2024.
Temporarily disabled HTTP/2 on our Plesk hosting servers due to Rapid Reset vulnerability CVE-2023-44487
10/11/2023: 
We have temporarily disabled HTTP/2 on our Plesk web hosting servers, due to a recently disclosed vulnerability in HTTP/2. Our servers will serve web pages using HTTP/1.1 until software updates containing the necessary mitigations are provided by Plesk, and Nginx. The effect of this change from HTTP/2 to HTTP/1.1 should, at most, be a slight reduction in website performance.
11/8/2023 Update: HTTP/2 has been re-enabled based on guidance from Plesk.
[Resolved] Web Hosting Issues May 24-26, 2023
May 24-26 2023 – Two recent issues caused brief or intermittent disruptions to websites hosted on our Plesk hosting servers. Workarounds were implemented and service was restored. Details follow…
Plesk Hosting Server Certificate Renewal (2022+)
The following announcement only affects customers who host their own domain name on our Plesk hosting server.
We have renewed our SSL/TLS security certificate for our Plesk hosting server (host.widomaker.com). This renewed certificate will be used for connections to the Plesk server and the Plesk Control Panel. This includes HTTPS, FTPS, and some email connections (POP3, IMAP, SMTP).
Horde Webmail Changed to RoundCube Webmail on Plesk Hosting Servers
This post is only applicable to customers who have their domain’s email hosted on our Plesk hosting servers _AND_ (at least sometimes) access their email using the Horde webmail application. Note that most hosting customers use Outlook or Thunderbird to access their email, and do not regularly use webmail.
MariaDB (MySQL) Upgrade, and Note on Supported PHP Versions, on our Plesk Hosting Servers
If you have a domain name hosted on one of our Plesk web hosting servers, please direct your web designer, webmaster, or I.T. Support, to this post.
This post covers two website hosting related items, the upcoming MariaDB (MySQL) database software upgrade, and a reminder about currently supported PHP versions.
Upgrade to Warden Anti-Spam Plugin for Plesk Hosted Mailboxes
This announcement is only intended for customers who have their own custom domain name hosted on one of our Plesk hosting servers.
Today, we will be upgrading the Warden Anti-Spam plugin, on our Plesk hosting servers, to the latest major version.
[Completed] Upcoming Plesk Software Upgrade (Hosting Server)
October 19 2020, 2:00 PM – This announcement applies to web or email hosting customers, with their own domain names, hosted on our Plesk hosting servers.
We have scheduled a software upgrade, on our Plesk hosting servers on, Monday, October 26th, 2020, beginning around, 8:00 PM ET.
Plesk Hosting Server Certificate Renewal (2020)
The following announcement only affects customers who host their own domain name on our Plesk hosting server.
We have renewed our SSL/TLS security certificate for our Plesk hosting server. This renewed certificate will be used for connections to the Plesk server and the Plesk Control Panel. This includes FTPS and email connections (POP3, IMAP, SMTP). We will be enabling this renewed certificate early next week, which is the week beginning on, Monday, August 17, 2020.
