Category Archives: bavatuesdays

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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Updating the bava database from MyISAM to InnoDB

Posted on June 6, 2020 by Reverend

Some of our initial explorations in the Reclaim Cloud have been around automagically scaling for larger WordPress Multisite instance. One of the things Tim discovered yesterday is that the Gallera Cluster that scales databases only works with InnoDB type MySQL … Continue reading →

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bava in the cloud with clusters

Posted on May 30, 2020 by Reverend

Last weekend I took a small step for the bava, but potentially a huge step for Reclaim Hosting. This modest blog was migrated (once again!) into a containerized stack in the cloud in ways we could only dream about 7 … Continue reading →

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The Evil Eye

Posted on May 7, 2020 by Reverend

As Paul Bond already noted, there was a reprisal of the Bavafest last week. We got to talk about the maestro of b-movies, Mario Bava, with Antonio Vantaggiato’s class on Cine y Cultura Italiana at Sagrado. Short version of this post: it … Continue reading →

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But what does it cost?

Posted on May 5, 2020 by Reverend

I remain interested in the cost of hosting—surprise surprise. Since January I’ve been hosting my blog on a Digital Ocean droplet, with the exception of a 30-day jaunt over to Kinsta in March to explore container-based WordPress hosting. At a … Continue reading →

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Missing MySQL Extension

Posted on May 5, 2020 by Reverend

In fact, the full error I received when trying to upgrade my WordPress instance running on Centos 7 in a Digital Ocean droplet was the following: Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by … Continue reading →

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Running the bava’s DNS through Cloudflare

Posted on April 27, 2020 by Reverend

So, one of the themes of 2020 for me (even before the virus) has been experimenting with the hosting of my blog. Back in January I moved my blog away from shared hosting on Reclaim to its own server on … Continue reading →

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5 Top GIFs on the bava according to Kinsta’s Analytics

Posted on March 18, 2020 by Reverend

I’ve been a bit distracted by the outside world, as you all can imagine. I have to say I feel like Northern Italy has been going through the Corona Virus cycle for weeks now (my kids have been out of … Continue reading →

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Bava moves to Kinsta, story at 11

Posted on March 12, 2020 by Reverend

It’s been surreal here in Northern Italy, and the last thing the world needs right now is another hot take on the Corona Virus or teaching online in the age of pandemics. My turn over the least 10 years has … Continue reading →

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Partying Like it’s 2009

Posted on January 15, 2020 by Reverend

I’ve been on a bit of a mission to try and get my digital house in order. I’ve been catching up on uploading and organizing photos on Flickr and I’ve been blogging like its my job. That feels good, but … Continue reading →

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