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Clearing out table rows across databases in WordPress Multisite

I've been doing some optimizing of databases on a very large (32k site) WordPress Multisite that currently is split using MultiDB into 256 databases. The size of the databases seemed abnormally large and upon closer inspection I found a lot of rows in the options table for each

Arcade Repair and the DIY Aesthetic

As we've continued to add to the collection of arcade games at Reclaim Video/CoWork it was inevitable that we would either need to find someone good at repairing these machines or learn to do it ourselves. I think you can probably imagine what side of that coin

A vision for making at Reclaim HQ

It's no secret that one of the true highlights of my time at the University of Mary Washington was working with George Meadows of the College of Education and Rosemary Arneson in the library to build the ThinkLab Makerspace. There are few things that were able to spark

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 1.1.0 release which introduced the concept of "packages" that allow for different community

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 the graph below In addition to the rather confusing naming convention of going from 5.6 to

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