Category Archives: Reclaim Cloud

Reclaim Hosting: the Site on the Edgeport of Forever Uptime

This post was cross-posted to Reclaim Hosting’s new company blog “Reclaim the Blog,” so you can read this post there as well. To be clear, forever uptime is a dangerous claim, and anyone that promises you 24/7, 100% uptime is … Continue reading

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Offloading Azuracast Media, Recordings, and Backups to S3

I’ve been on a bit of an offloading kick these last months, and I’m digging the idea of controlling server environment bloat by having media hosted in an S3 storage situation. It simplifies cloning, updating, and/or migrating a server environment, … Continue reading

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bava on the Edge

On the edge, I’ve been there And it’s just as crowded as back home. Dag Nasty, “La Peñita” Yesterday I did a little experimenting on the good old bava.blog to test the notion of application delivery networks (ADNs). You probably … Continue reading

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Containerizing Mastodon on Reclaim Cloud

Taylor and I did a stream yesterday wherein we (royal) set about taking one of my experimental Mastodon instances (bava.social) and moving it from a Debian VPS into a Docker container. We got the bug after a recent open source … Continue reading

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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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