Post Mortem on BJM Server Outage
On Monday, June 14th at 2PM EST an upgrade to the MySQL engine on server bjm.www.reclaimhosting.com (Shared Hosting) was initiated to upgrade from MySQL 5.7
On Monday, June 14th at 2PM EST an upgrade to the MySQL engine on server bjm.www.reclaimhosting.com (Shared Hosting) was initiated to upgrade from MySQL 5.7
It’s been almost 2 years since I last wrote about major PHP updates to Reclaim Hosting’s platforms. At the time the big move was setting our default PHP to 7.0. The transition from PHP 5.6 to 7.0 was perhaps the biggest breaking change of all and at
Fredericksburg, VA., Jul. 29, 2020 — Reclaim Hosting LLC, a web hosting company focused on academic spaces, announced today a partnership with Jelastic to provide
Following-up on my last post about Reclaim Radio, here is how I got the web radio software Azuracast up and running. The process was made easy by the fact that Azuracast has instructions on how to self-install a Docker instance … Continue reading →
What’s old is new again. In 2015 I wrote about Reclaim Hosting experimenting with the next-generation forum software Discourse using a multi-user Docker setup. We use Discourse for Reclaim’s Community forums and I’ve grown to love the software.* What’s more, … Continue reading →
Traditionally Reclaim Hosting (like many hosts I’m sure) has trailed a bit behind on pushing bleeding edge versions of PHP for our clients. Maybe that’s a symptom of how much of the web still has a ways to go in terms of compatibility, but we want to start pushing things
We are excited to announce that we have partnered with the Commons in a Box project to bring an automated installer to the Reclaim Hosting platform. This follows on the heals of their 1.1.0 release which introduced the concept of “packages” that allow for different community types to
View this post on Instagram Where will you spend eternity? A post shared by Jim Groom (@jim.groom) on Aug 21, 2018 at 7:37am PDT … Continue reading →
Reclaim Hosting has long been a big fan of the work that Alan Levine is doing with SPLOTs (Smallest Possible learning…object…tools? Who knows what it actually stands for). The idea, born out of the work Alan was doing with Brian Lamb‘s group at TRU, was to make
You may have noticed in my last blog post a bit of a tease in that I’ve become a bit more comfortable recently with building installers. Of course not every application is going to be compatible with a cPanel environment or work well in the context of automating the install,