I've fallen in love with Spark recently. Being unexperienced with web development, I stumbled upon Spark when I was looking for a small framework for setting up a simple web application based on Java. My learning curve has been steep and my first website (consisting of nothing but a simple …

Note to self: If the Let's Encrypt extension for Plesk fails to renew a certificate (when triggered manually), disable the automatic forwarding to an SSL connection in the Apache settings. This forced secure connection seems to disturb the renewal script.

The error I got was something like this:

Let's …