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
spartan Becoming a Spartan Late summer of 2015 seems like a long time ago. That was when my wife and I, after purchasing a box of Krispie Kreme donuts, decided to join a local gym. I was
domains17 Domains 2017 Conversation with Tom Woodward This past Friday we had the pleasure of talking with Tom Woodward, Associate Director of Learning Innovation at the ALT Lab at Virginia Commonwealth University. Tom spearheads a lot of the faculty development
reclaimhosting A New Venture Ok now that the clickbait title is out of the way, stop freaking out. I'm still the Co-founder of Reclaim Hosting and have absolutely no plans for people to be rid of me
Ping Pong Sometimes feels like there's some ridiculous equation in my head that forces me to think that the longer I go without writing, the more profound whatever post I have in my head needs
documentation Quick Documentation Workflows with Clarify At Reclaim Hosting we've jumped between a few different documentation platforms over the years, from Zendesk's native "Help Center" to static generated content using MkDocs, a dynamic site with a flat
reclaim Investing in Community I recently received a support ticket, not so much asking for support, but rather wondering about the status of https://community.reclaimhosting.com/ and why it wasn't promoted more. The person pointed out
wiki Federated Choral Explanations for Documentation I've recently been thinking more and more about documentation and the ways in which Reclaim Hosting as well as the growing number of schools doing Domain of One's Own answer the common "
🔎💾.ws So apparently emoji domains are a thing, though a complicated one at that. I blame equal parts boredom and Bud Hunt (a very persuasive individual) for registering one last night. Here's the skinny
reclaim Running a Jekyll Site on Reclaim Hosting This weekend I decided to experiment with a feature we have enabled on some of our servers that is sort of an unsung hero for advanced users (so advanced I hadn't taken the
reclaim Reclaim Your Domain Web Series A few weeks ago I decided to start putting together some targeted screencasts from the standpoint of building a website from scratch using Reclaim Hosting. It's one thing to have lots of written
reclaim Site Publisher for cPanel As a company, Reclaim Hosting is heavily invested in the cPanel software to drive a decent user experience for building on the web. It's been interesting to see them evolve the product after
Embracing a Quantified Self I'm equal parts fascinated and horrified by the "Internet of Things" movement. As someone who can't resist playing with the shiny, I love the idea of connected devices. In practicality it
Reflections on Indie Ed-Tech Ever had one of those events where your mind was spinning afterwards and attempts to write about it failed due to just how much there was to talk about? That's the place I'm