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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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Tag Archives: wpmr
A WordPress Multiregion Recap
I started writing about running (or trying to run) a WordPress Multiregion (WPMR) instance of this blog in November of 2021. So over 3 years ago now. WordPress Multi-Region on Reclaim Cloud Since then I’ve written eleven posts tagged wpmr … Continue reading
Reclaim Hosting Back on Cloudflare
As you can tell from my last post, I tend to use this blog as a testing ground for many other things. Such as the role of avant garde when switching back and forth between services like Edgeport and Cloudflare. … Continue reading
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
WordPress Multiregion Database Replication Checks
I have to document some of what we have been working on for WordPress Multiregion (WPMR) given I’ll need to reference some of these commands and scripts in the future. One of the issues that can occur with our WPMR … Continue reading
WordPress Backups in Reclaim Cloud
I recently wrote up a support guide that outlines how to backup a WordPress environment in Reclaim Cloud. We already take regular nightly backups of all environments that are kept for 14 days, but those can only be restored upon … Continue reading
Talking WordPress Multiregion Hosting on Reclaim Today
Last week Lauren Hanks, Chris Blankenship, and I recorded a session for Reclaim Today, “Oh What Brave New Worlds of WordPress Multiregion Hosting!” wherein we discuss the process of getting Reclaim Hosting’s main site running in in a WordPress mutliregion … Continue reading
Flattening the DNS Curve with Cloudflare
I feel like I could write a book about just last week at Reclaim Hosting, so many awesome things happening and the work we’re doing to build a sense of team internally and community more generally is really starting to … Continue reading
Multiregion: a Year-Long Odyssey
Since our all-team meeting in November of last year I have been chasing the White Whale of WordPress multiregion hosting on Reclaim Cloud. I’ve been experimenting with it on and off since January. You can find the tale of the … Continue reading
WordPress Multi-Region: Is the Third Time a Charm?
Hope springs eternal in the bava breast. This is the third attempt since November of 2021 to try and get a WordPress Multi-Region setup working on Reclaim Cloud, I blogged attempts one and two in some detail. And I’m glad … Continue reading
Second Time Around with WordPress Multi-Region
Last week I was boasting about “Bava Multi-Region Cause I Can”, but that didn’t last. I ran into issues with comments not syncing across database instances in the different regions. I originally blamed caching, but after checking the secondary databases … Continue reading