Tag Archives: bavatuesdays

All Roads Lead Back to the Blog

Posted on March 17, 2023 by Reverend

Well, the only good thing about being away from the bava.blog for more than a month is the tried and true joy of blogging about not blogging. Or blogging about the will to blog. Or blogging about how no one … Continue reading →

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A Belated Happy Birthday to the bava

Posted on December 31, 2020 by Reverend

Here’s to 15 years on the bava, and all the irreparable damage it has caused me. Well, actually, I am a couple of weeks late. My blog anniversary is December 13th, but this December has flown by and I have … Continue reading →

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Holy Clustered Cloudlets, bava!

Posted on June 30, 2020 by Reverend

The last month needed to be a deep dive into the Reclaim Cloud, and I think I have held up my end. I migrated quite a few old sites, namely bavaghost, this blog (a couple of times), ds106 (a couple … Continue reading →

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Weekend Notes from Reclaim Cloud: Anth101, downsizing bava, and back to MyISAM

Posted on June 29, 2020 by Reverend

I spent some time Saturday and Sunday playing around with the Reclaim Cloud, I am spending more and more time in this environment, and loving it. Couple of  notes here given I am prone to forget. I moved the impressive … Continue reading →

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Updating the bava database from MyISAM to InnoDB

Posted on June 6, 2020 by Reverend

Some of our initial explorations in the Reclaim Cloud have been around automagically scaling for larger WordPress Multisite instance. One of the things Tim discovered yesterday is that the Gallera Cluster that scales databases only works with InnoDB type MySQL … Continue reading →

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bava in the cloud with clusters

Posted on May 30, 2020 by Reverend

Last weekend I took a small step for the bava, but potentially a huge step for Reclaim Hosting. This modest blog was migrated (once again!) into a containerized stack in the cloud in ways we could only dream about 7 … 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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Managing Mail on the bavaserver

Posted on January 6, 2020 by Reverend

I’ve been on a bit of a roll with the bavaserver setup, and I am going to try and ride that energy for a bit longer before the semester gets into full gear at Reclaim Hosting and any remnants of … Continue reading →

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14 on Friday the 13th

Posted on December 13, 2019 by Reverend

Not one to break with tradition, I wanted to interrupt the radio silence on the bava over the past few weeks to say happy birthday to the best damn blog from Timbuktu to Portland, Maine, or Portland, Oregon for that … Continue reading →

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Re-wiring the bava

Posted on January 23, 2018 by Reverend

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 →

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