Category Archives: Reclaim Cloud

Notes on WP Offload Media

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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Reclaim Cloud in Europe!

It’s official, as of today we now have an active European Union (EU) region in Reclaim Cloud, located in the partynacht central of Berlin Frankfurt, Germany. This has been a long-time coming and we’re thrilled to expand the geographical scope … Continue reading

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Reclaim Cloud’s 1-Click Mastodon Installer

Creating a couple of videos highlighting Taylor’s 1-click Mastodon installer for Reclaim Cloud has been on my to-do for too long, so this week I knocked it out. I did two quick videos, the first takes you through the basic … Continue reading

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Presenting Reclaim Cloud at OER23

This is the last OER23 blog post on my to-do list, there may be more, but this is the last one I’ve planned. Long live OER23 blogging! Lauren Hanks and I presented about Reclaim Cloud on the final day of … Continue reading

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The Allure of Mastodon

Since November I’ve been toying around with Mastodon on Reclaim Cloud. At first it was to take up the gauntlet thrown, and see if I could create a space for the ds106 community. I did a bunch of work for … Continue reading

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Mastodon Version Updates, Object Storage Security, and More

This post provides a place for me to capture some of the maintenance work I’ve been doing on social.ds106.us and reclaim.rocks; the two Mastodon instances of note I’m currently administering. Keep in mind these two instances are running on a … Continue reading

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Costs in the Cloud Two Years On

Back in July of 2020, and again in September of 2020, I wrote about tracking costs in Reclaim Cloud. Costs in the Cloud A Follow-up on Costs in the Cloud Two years later things have developed a fair amount with … Continue reading

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WordPress Multiregion Database Replication Checks

I have to document some of what we have been working on for WordPress Multiregion (WPMR) given I’ll need to reference some of these commands and scripts in the future. One of the issues that can occur with our WPMR … Continue reading

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1-Click Installer for Owncast in Reclaim Cloud

Following-up on yesterday’s post about our Owncast session for the Open Media Ecosystem series, I wanted to quickly highlight that we now have a 1-click installer for Owncast in Reclaim Cloud. I tried it out yesterday, and it is yet … Continue reading

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Open Media Ecosystem: Owncast

In another installation of the Open Media Ecosystem series run through Reclaim Edtech, Pilot Irwin and I did a stream last week highlighting the virtues of Owncast, a free, open source application for live streaming video. We used the Who, … Continue reading

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