reclaimhosting Commons in a Box comes to Reclaim Hosting We are excited to announce that we have partnered with the Commons In A Box project to bring an automated installer to the Reclaim Hosting platform. This follows on the heals of their
Coming PHP Updates PHP has had a rather weird history of version updates and the timing surrounding them. You can see a timetable of version release dates and their subsequent active and security support here with
reclaimhosting Honest Pricing for All Reclaim Hosting recently celebrated it's 5th birthday in late July, and during that 5 years we've only had to increase the cost of an account 1 time as a result of adding WHOIS
tiny tiny rss Link Sharing through Tiny Tiny RSS When Google Reader kicked the bucket I used Fever for awhile but had concerns when the developer decided to stop focusing on it and looked around for an alternative. There are several hosted
reclaimhosting App Release: Big Picture Calling Card Reclaim Hosting has long been a big fan of the work that Alan Levine is doing with SPLOTs (Smallest Possible learning...object...tools? Who knows what it actually stands for). The idea, born
reclaimhosting Today I recently got back from a lovely weeklong vacation in Myrtle Beach where amongst all the relaxing I got nostalgic while showing some old DTLT Today videos to a friend. Right on the
reclaimhosting The Next App: Nextcloud You may have noticed in my last blog post a bit of a tease in that I've become a bit more comfortable recently with building installers. Of course not every application is going
reclaimhosting RSS is Not Dead: FreshRSS in Installatron It all begins with a tweet (pay not attention to the fact I'm no longer on Twitter)@ReclaimHosting Is NewsBlur something that would install on a Reclaim server? Looks like perhaps too many
reclaimhosting Node.JS comes to Reclaim Hosting I'm very excited to announce that starting today it is now possible to build and run Node.JS applications on Reclaim Hosting. Similar to the Python and Ruby features that make running Django
reclaimhosting Learning Javascript If you asked me today what is the most important programming language to learn, Javascript would probably be it, at least if you're doing anything on the web. Interacting with API's like WordPress
reclaimvideo Return to Oz (1985) A film I knew I was going to need to acquire when we built Reclaim Video was one that I watched so many times in fascination and horror, the supposed sequel to Wizard
reclaimvideo Willow (1988) One of the great joys of building Reclaim Video beyond the chance to get back to doing some art has been the chance to reflect on some of the films that defined my
reclaim A Personal Private CRM Last month I forgot to call my dad on his birthday. It's certainly not the first time I have forgotten something important. I'm not wired in the necessary way to piece together all
reclaimhosting Site Building with WordPress and Elementor One of the biggest challenges for folks new to building a website with WordPress is that it feels very much like writing/blogging software out of the box. Yes, you can create pages,
reclaimhosting Ansible and Configuration Management at Reclaim Hosting When we started Reclaim Hosting it was with a lot of hopes and dreams and a single server. Hard to believe we only had a single server to manage for the first ~8
scalar Getting to Know Scalar All of us at Reclaim are preparing to host our second Domain of One's Own Workshop here in Fredericksburg, Virginia next week. While some of the curriculum from our first iteration will be
wordpress Failed DNS Lookups for Wildcard Subdomain WordPress Multisite I ran into an issue yesterday that had me completely stumped and I had to pull in cPanel support for a second pair of eyes (and of course they fixed the issue in
vste Google Hangouts for Presentation Recordings I've been involved in some capacity with the Virginia Society for Technology in Education for almost 8 years having served on the Board of Directors as well as the Conference Committee and continue
archive Archiving the Digital I'm sure I'm not alone in having grown up in a household that had shelves dedicated to all shape and size of photo albums. The crinkle of plastic that covered each page holding
homebrew Humble Homebrew Beginnings I've been digging the craft beer scene for the better part of 18 months now (to the detriment of my waistline alas). We are spoiled in Fredericksburg with 8 different breweries in the
reclaimhosting SSL Everywhere (Again) It's almost hard to believe it's only been 2 years since Let's Encrypt came out of beta and began providing SSL Certificates to the general public. I wrote a post at the time
reclaimhosting Patching Meltdown and Spectre Seems like every 1-2 years we get a major security scare in the form of a global exploit that effects server infrastructure in some fashion and requires a response. We've had Heartbleed, Poodle,
Search and Replace within HTML files This is a quick writeup of a challenge I ran into yesterday on a support ticket that I figured worth documenting here. Someone was moving an account to a new server and had
Beyond LAMP Since Reclaim Hosting was founded in 2013, cPanel and the traditional "LAMP" stack have been at its core. LAMP is an acronym for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP and some of the
Blog Facelift This week has been a bit of a return to the blog. It had started to become a running joke in the office that perhaps my posts should stop syndicating since things had