Category Archives: WordPress

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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WordPress and the Headless Web

Posted on April 5, 2020 by Reverend

The prescience of format and delivery of #pressedconf20 is timely, thank you @nlafferty and @patlockley for continuing on with the third annual @pressedconf -it means a lot to many of us #bigfan pic.twitter.com/6awf3UqI8k — Jim Groom (@jimgroom) March 26, 2020 … 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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Kinsta: Container-based WordPress Hosting

Posted on March 9, 2020 by Reverend

One of the benefits of doing migrations for Reclaim Hosting internauts is getting to see how different hosting companies operate. Many use cPanel which is familiar territory for us at Reclaim, but ever so often you come across some pretty … Continue reading →

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Migrating WordPress without Access to Database or Core Files

Posted on February 29, 2020 by Reverend

One of the things I have been doing a lot of at Reclaim Hosting these days while the US sleeps is migrating accounts. We have a steady flow of fine folks moving to Reclaim, and one of the things we … Continue reading →

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Intentional Learning at Reclaim Hosting: Back to the bava Basics or, Blogging about WordPress

Posted on February 28, 2020 by Reverend

A blog title so long it might as well be a tweet….but it’s not, it’s a god-damned BLOG! I’M BLOGGING, HOLD ALL MY CALLS!!! Feel the burn, THE BLOG BURN!  So, I got that out of the way, but it … Continue reading →

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New Year, New Digs for the bava

Posted on January 4, 2020 by Reverend

I’ve been pretty good about trying to catch up and organize my photos on Flickr, more on that anon, but I got sucked into a New Year’s project that consumed me for the last two days. I decided to move … Continue reading →

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WordPress Multisite: Multi-Network versus Multiple Independent Networks

Posted on April 22, 2019 by Reverend

One of the things we find ourselves doing more and more of at Reclaim Hosting is managed hosting, in particular for WordPress Multisite (WPMS). In the end was the beginning for this blog. So, I was on a call last … Continue reading →

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