Tag Archives: AWS

Setting Up S3 Storage for Omeka

Posted on November 10, 2015 by Reverend

Omeka continues to be a huge draw for a variety of students, faculty, and librarians using Reclaim Hosting. And the good folks at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media have been champions of our service from the … Continue reading →

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A 5 Terabyte Shark

Posted on August 28, 2015 by Reverend

I’ve been trying to consolidate and archive the last 10 years of images, videos, documents, site backups, etc. It’s a daunting task, but I am finding uploading everything on old computers and backup disks to Amazon S3 is an approach … Continue reading →

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Abstractions: Running WordPress Multi-Site using AWS, Docker, and BTSync

Posted on July 18, 2015 by Reverend

Heads up: this is not a technical run through, but more of a conceptual overview. Apologies if you came here looking for a how-to. Hopefully we will have just that in the next few months. But enough about the past, … Continue reading →

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Stabilizing AWS Costs on UMW Blogs

Posted on July 5, 2015 by Reverend

One of the quiet wins we had in DTLT this semester was moving UMW Blogs to Amazon Web Services. It was essential because this platform was quickly outgrowing the limits of a dedicated server. In fact, if it weren’t for Tim Owens‘s fancy … Continue reading →

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Duke’s Website has Gone Docker

Posted on July 4, 2015 by Reverend

http://t.co/YUs8YEmRIe has gone #Docker! As of today @DukeU‘s main site now hosted entirely in #Docker containers! @DukeOIT @DukeWebServices — Chris Collins (@ChrisInDurham) May 12, 2015 I was excited to see Tony Hirst retweet the news that Duke University’s website is … Continue reading →

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Reclaim and the Translation of EdTech

Posted on November 27, 2014 by Reverend

Jim Groom on Reclaim and the translation of edtech from UCalgary Taylor Institute on Vimeo. D’Arcy Norman posted this one video that parts of a larger documentary project he started while at UMW for the Reclaim Your Domain Hackathon. I don’t get to see … Continue reading →

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Scaling UMW Blogs in the Cloud

Posted on November 12, 2014 by Reverend

UMW Blogs is in it’s eighth year, which is like 56 years old in web time. And like all us aging technologies, middle age can be a bitch when it comes to performance. But thanks to Tim Owens and the magic of load … Continue reading →

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UMW Blogs in Cloud City

Posted on August 28, 2014 by Reverend

Almost two weeks ago Ryan Brazell and Tim Owens moved both the core files and the databases of UMW Blogs onto Amazon Web Services (AWS). What does that mean exactly? It means UMW Blogs is now in a virtualized server environment that can dynamically … Continue reading →

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S3 Commando (Line)

Posted on August 3, 2014 by Reverend

In my last post I wrote about moving bavatuesdays (and the rest of my personal, server based online life) to Reclaim Hosting. It was long overdue, and it might be appropriate to recognize that my partner in all things Reclaim, … Continue reading →

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Terminal Ghost

Posted on May 17, 2014 by Reverend

My exploration of the blogging platform Ghost continues, and this is yet another post in that vein. It might be worth mentioning, however, that my experimentation with Ghost is in service of trying to figure out a cloud-based infrastructure servce … Continue reading →

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