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This space is a collection of company announcements and blog posts from Reclaim Hosting staff. We’re so happy you’re here!

FrogFind!

I was watching this Action Retro video where he installs Red Hat Linux 5.2 on a Pentium system. Its cool stuff!
That being said, the real gold for me was him referencing this search engine that he runs for use with retro computers, FrogFind!
It loads over plain old HTTP, and has a simple layout, so it works with ancient browsers, but even cooler than that, when you click on a result it loads in a simplified version of the page right, this way you can actually read the content of modern websites from an old browser!

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Migrating WordPress Multisite setups to the cloud!

A couple of weeks back I did a stream with Amanda and Pilot where I showed off what I’ve been learning about quickly and efficiently moving WordPress Multisite and Commons in a Box setups to Reclaim Cloud. I’ve done a few CBOX Openlab migrations, most recently for SUNY Oneonta and University of New Haven, so I wanted to document what I’ve been learning. The great thing about CBOX Classic and CBOX Openlab is that they really are just WordPress Multisite, and so not too much special was necessary above and beyond moving any other Multisite.

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Turning 10

In August 2013 (Whois.com officially says August 28, 2013), 18-year-old Meredith sat in her first college class at Mary Washington. I was introduced to a thing called a domain name. She was asked to register a domain name as part of a class and was asked to write weekly reflections on the readings. And she […]

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Thank you, Reclaim

In the next few weeks, Jack and I are embarking on another military move. This time, we’re headed back up to the Washington DC/Northern VA area, and there’s a lot of change still to come on the horizon. With that in mind, I’ve decided that this is the right time for me to take a step back from Reclaim Hosting. My last official day as Director of Operations will be one week from today on Friday, September 8. This has been an incredibly difficult decision, and I am very grateful to have spent the last eight years helping build something pretty special at Reclaim Hosting.

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Preparing for ReclaimPress

I’m pretty excited because one of the things I’ve been looking forward to for several months now, is testing and documenting ReclaimPress, which will be Reclaim Hosting’s latest product. In short, ReclaimPress offers performant, high-available WordPress hosting for when you … Continue reading

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