Category Archives: bavatuesdays

SSL Issue on bavatuesdays through Reclaim Cloud

Posted on March 5, 2021 by Reverend

This is a weird issue that I have not seen happen on any other Reclaim Cloud environment, but I wanted to quickly document it before I forget what I did or, given long enough, that it ever happened at all. … Continue reading →

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A Belated Happy Birthday to the bava

Posted on December 31, 2020 by Reverend

Here’s to 15 years on the bava, and all the irreparable damage it has caused me. Well, actually, I am a couple of weeks late. My blog anniversary is December 13th, but this December has flown by and I have … Continue reading →

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Weekend Notes from Reclaim Cloud: Anth101, downsizing bava, and back to MyISAM

Posted on June 29, 2020 by Reverend

I spent some time Saturday and Sunday playing around with the Reclaim Cloud, I am spending more and more time in this environment, and loving it. Couple of  notes here given I am prone to forget. I moved the impressive … 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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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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