Category Archives: AWS

Macaulay Migrations, Random Litespeed Issues, and S3 Media Offloads – Oh My!

Posted on November 3, 2023 by Reverend

[Lessons learned: never do a victory lap on your blog before the migration is in the bag.] It’s been well over a month in the making, and in many ways it started my descent into the Mouth of Madness that … Continue reading →

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More Notes on ds106 Clean-Up

Posted on August 17, 2023 by Reverend

I think the worst of the ds106 hack is behind us, and thanks to Wordfence managing most of the heavy lifting it was not all that bad in the end. Now I’m just going through and pretty ruthlessly removing plugins … Continue reading →

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Notes on WP Offload Media

Posted on August 14, 2023 by Reverend

At Reclaim Hosting we’ve been exploring plugins for offloading media from larger WordPress instances to object storage such as AWS’s S3 or Digital Ocean’s Spaces. There are a lot of good reasons to do this: First and foremost, we want … Continue reading →

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Moving Mastodon Object Storage from AWS S3 to DigitalOcean Spaces

Posted on April 26, 2023 by Reverend

These days I’ve been in a Mastodon maintenance state-of-mind, as my last post highlights. Early this week I tried to shore up some security issues linked with listing files publicly in our AWS S3 bucket. This encouraged me to explore … Continue reading →

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MinIO and Object Storage in the Reclaim Cloud

Posted on June 9, 2020 by Reverend

In my work to get familiar with Reclaim Cloud I have been taking on projects that I am fairly familiar. Such as migrating this blog, ds106, and ds106.club. It’s been educational, and my last migration project is now almost finished … Continue reading →

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Look a(nother) Ghost

Posted on December 22, 2017 by Reverend

Since May of 2014 I have been playing on and off with the blogging platform Ghost. It has been an on again off again affair, and I have never left WordPress for it, but rather use it as a test … Continue reading →

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Give Up the AWS Ghost

Posted on September 11, 2016 by Reverend

Building on my last post about moving ds106.club off Amazon Web Services (AWS), I moved another EC2 instance I setup back in 2014 to run the blogging platform Ghost. Like ds106.club, I had not been able to access the server … Continue reading →

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Putting Domains Infrastructure in the Cloud

Posted on August 30, 2016 by Reverend

This semester we having been moving our Domain of One’s Own (DoOO) packages for new institutions to Digital Ocean. Up and until now we haven’t run DoOO through cloud infrastructure providers like AWS, Linode, Digital Ocean, etc. for two reasons: price … Continue reading →

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Archiving with Amber

Posted on February 12, 2016 by Reverend

I was reading John Johnston’s blog this morning (gotta keep up with my European peeps) and his post about fighting linkrot hit home. Every morning I wake up to an email letting me know a few more links on the bava … Continue reading →

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A 5 Terabyte Shark

Posted on August 28, 2015 by Reverend

I’ve been trying to consolidate and archive the last 10 years of images, videos, documents, site backups, etc. It’s a daunting task, but I am finding uploading everything on old computers and backup disks to Amazon S3 is an approach … Continue reading →

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