Author Archives: Reverend

Who ya gonna call? Pat Lockley!

Posted on October 23, 2017 by Reverend

Your site is hacked And it don’t look good Who ya gonna call? (PAT LOCKLEY!) I ain’t afraid of no Brits. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I’m not sure, but I think Alan Levine maybe able to do something with that … Continue reading →

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Pushing It Real Good in Barcelona

Posted on October 20, 2017 by Reverend

you pushed it real good! #PushingHE https://t.co/SIcYlsCi9H — Grant Potter (@grantpotter) October 3, 2017 Over two weeks ago I co-presented at the Open University of Catalonia’s “Pushing the Boundaries of Higher Ed”  symposium with Brian Lamb. Our session was centered on … Continue reading →

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Reclaim or, You Can’t Jinx Greatness

Posted on October 19, 2017 by Reverend

I can’t remember the last time we had a bad review of our support at Reclaim Hosting, so I went searching in our Zendesk account over the last 90 days—and I can safely say it was more than 3 months … Continue reading →

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NCDU-fu

Posted on October 19, 2017 by Reverend

Sometimes it feels good to have some meager sysadmin competencies, such as knowing how to quickly identity where large files are in a particular hosting account. This issue comes up from time-to-time when someone discovers all their storage space has … Continue reading →

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There Will Be No Domains 18

Posted on October 17, 2017 by Reverend

It occurred to us at Reclaim Hosting that if we were going to run a Domains 18 conference, we would have to start the planning now. Fact is, we really don’t think there is a need for another conference right … Continue reading →

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Torino Bestiale!

Posted on October 17, 2017 by Reverend

That inspired spire you see both above and below is Torino’s National Cinema Museum. Literally a cathedral devoted to film. And I caught it during a great exhibit, namely ….  An entire exhibit dedicated to beasts within film. And as … Continue reading →

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OpenMed

Posted on October 17, 2017 by Reverend

A little over two weeks ago I ventured to nearby Torino, Italy for the final two days of a week-long training event that is part of the OpenMed initiative. What’s OpenMed, well I am glad you asked: Five partners from … Continue reading →

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Living in Oblivion

Posted on October 16, 2017 by Reverend

I was on a roll blogging for a bit in September, and for me that is always a sign that I’m getting back into a work groove. But extended grooves have been harder for me this year given travel. I’m … Continue reading →

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The World’s a Mess, It’s in Reclaim’s Latest Server

Posted on October 16, 2017 by Reverend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-U6dXK4Mig The semester has been pretty busy at Reclaim Hosting, so much so we needed to roll out a third shared-hosting server last week. This one was named after the early LA punk band X.  X marks the server in … Continue reading →

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Ghost in a Shell

Posted on September 28, 2017 by Reverend

I woke up this morning with an excited text from Tim “the wonderful wizard of Reclaim” Owens pointing me to some work he did on our Cloudron test instance. Short version: it is awesome. Now for the slightly longer version. … Continue reading →

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