Reclaim Hosting
May 8, 2025
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
Jim Groom
December 4, 2024
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
Jim Groom
December 13, 2023
Macaulay Migrations, Random Litespeed Issues, and S3 Media Offloads – Oh My!
[Lessons learned: never do a victory lap on your blog before the migration is in the bag.] It’s been well over a month in the making, and in many ways it started my descent into the Mouth of Madness that … Continue reading
Jim Groom
November 3, 2023
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
Jim Groom
August 18, 2023
Notes on WP Offload Media
At Reclaim Hosting we’ve been exploring plugins for offloading media from larger WordPress instances to object storage such as AWS’s S3 or Digital Ocean’s Spaces. There are a lot of good reasons to do this: First and foremost, we want … Continue reading
Jim Groom
August 14, 2023
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
Jim Groom
December 30, 2022
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
Jim Groom
December 21, 2022
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
Jim Groom
November 7, 2022
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
Jim Groom
October 29, 2022
