Plesk: Enable SFTP access for additional FTP users
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Plesk: Enable SFTP access for additional FTP users

By default only the main user of a domain can SFTP into a domain. Plesk does allow to add FTP users but for some reason not for access over encrypted SSH. That makes the whole feature broken given today’s security standards that don’t allow plain FTP access anymore. This guide helps you to properly set up the new user for secure access over SFTP.

Cannot allocate memory – Fix for login error
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Cannot allocate memory – Fix for login error

Do you see this message on every login to your Ubuntu system? “Could not load list of meta packages: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory”. The error indicates there was not enough RAM available to complete the task. Here I explain where the message comes from and how to get rid of it.