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-Serena Epstein
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-Luke Waltzer
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“Reverend” Jim “The Bava” Groom, alias “Snake Pliskin” is a charlatan and a fraud, a self-confessed “used car salesman” clawing his way into the glamour of the education technology keynote circuit via the efforts of his oppressed minions at the University of Mary Washington’s DTLT and beyond. The monster behind educational time-sink ds106 and still recovering from his bid for hipster stardom with “Edupunk”, Jim spends his days using his dwindling credibility to sell cheap webhosting to gullible undergraduates and getting banned from YouTube for gross piracy.
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Category Archives: sysadmin
Sequel Pro’s SQL Inserts
Another tool I’ve been becoming more familiar with for sites that don’t have phpMyAdmin to access the MySQL databases is Sequel Pro. It’s an open source application for managing SQL databases on the Mac. I have come to appreciate it … Continue reading
Digital Ocean’s One-Click Apps vs. Cloudron
Digital Ocean has been en fuego as of late. They announced a whole bunch of new droplet plans, and the price-point for all of them has gone down. This is very good news for Reclaim Hosting because it gives us … Continue reading
Re-wiring the bava
Yesterday I transferred this blog off our Beathap server to our newest shared hosting server in London: Wire—more on that server and the band that it’s named for in a separate post. There was a bit of a hiccup when I used … Continue reading
Upton Sinclair would have Laughed
I follow the Bitninja blog because we use this service as an external firewall at Reclaim Hosting, and they are pretty awesome. We run it on all of our shared hosting servers, and many of our bigger schools, and it … Continue reading
Command Line Cheat Sheet
I started this post years ago to collect commands I need from time to time, but it never got published. That said, years later I still need such a resource so I figured I would post this fairly idiosyncratic resource … Continue reading
NCDU-fu
Sometimes it feels good to have some meager sysadmin competencies, such as knowing how to quickly identity where large files are in a particular hosting account. This issue comes up from time-to-time when someone discovers all their storage space has … Continue reading
Freeing Up Disk Space (in my mind!)
I haven’t been as good at writing up daily sysadmin stuff as I should have, but I do reference this blog regularly for issues I have when playing a sysadmin on TV. One article I go to time and gain … Continue reading
Notes on WHM: Converting Addon Domain to cPanel Account
I recently learned about a feature of WHM (the system used to manage a cPanel server) that has been quite useful. WHM has a tool that allows you to convert an Addon domain from an existing cPanel account into its own … Continue reading
A WHMCS Invalid Token Error and the glory of blogging
I woke up this morning to find that our WHMCS portal for Reclaim Hosting was having some issues. WHMCS is software that enables you to manage the business of cPanel, effectively provisioning, invoicing, billing, renewing, etc. without it people can’t … Continue reading
As Easy as Setting Up a Minecraft Server
I was asked yesterday if we host Minecraft servers at Reclaim Hosting, to which I responded no. One of the great strengths of Reclaim has been it’s laser focus (provide awesome shared hosting environments) and managed growth (saying no, remaining lean, and keeping … Continue reading