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Why migrate from Typepad to Opalstack? When you migrate from Typepad to Opalstack, you get: Complete ownership of your content — Your blog posts, comments, and media files will be preserved on your own hosting account giving you full control of your content. Modern hosting infrastructure — Built on the latest technologies
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Shared servers and VPS running AlmaLinux 9 are available now! 🚀 Let's cut right to it: Shared servers running AlmaLinux 9 are now available in Frankfurt, Washington DC, Dallas, San Francisco, and Singapore. VPS running the new operating system are available everywhere we support VPS. What's new?
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Our new operating system is almost here! 🎉 After months of work our new operating system is almost here and over the next few weeks we will begin opening up VPS and shared servers running on AlmaLinux 9 instead of CentOS 7. Since your applications are far more complicated than our
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👋 Hey Everyone, Effective December 1st 2023 we’ll be increasing the price for all Opalstack hosting plans. The increase will be 25% or less depending on the plan, with most plans having a 20% increase. Price increases are never anyone’s favorite discussion topic. It's not ours either,
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tl;dr 🐘 Mastodon hosting is here, you can sign up now if you don't want to read to end! If you are looking for Mastodon hosting you’re in the right place. Mastodon is a social networking web app similar to Twitter, except that you can run it
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Hey Opalstackers! tl;dr We’ve launched a Mastodon instance. You can sign up at Opalstack.social now! Why are we launching our own Mastodon instance? Over the last few years we’ve been watching the Mastodon community grow and evolve. In the last couple weeks it’s become pretty
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Editor’s note: Today we have a guest post from one of our developers and there’s tons of juicy technical content! Introducing the open source Opalstack Python Library Today, we are releasing an open-source Python library to make using our JSON API even simpler. * PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/
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tl;dr To celebrate our 3rd birthday we are giving you 💥3 months free💥when you sign up for or change to any annual plan (that’s 25% off what you’ll pay monthly — that’s a whole quarter of free hosting)! When: Any time from April 30th (today in
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You may remember our last post here was the 1st part in a 3 part series where we walked through how we upgraded our systems to scale. Well, we were really going write that whole series. But then, WebFaction really, actually shut down and that ended up eating up most
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Some of the most consistent feedback we’ve received over the last couple years has been about 2 things: 1. The speed, design, and usability of the dashboard 2. The time it takes for changes to propagate from the dashboard to the server We’ve spent the last 6 months
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⚠️ If you haven’t started migrating yet you can’t wait any longer. ⚠️ Here’s exactly what you need to do to keep your websites and email working while you migrate. Step 1 — Get an archive created Email support@webfaction.com from the email addressed attached to your account send
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We are sorry to report that on January 8th 2020 we were notified that the IMAP server in Germany allowed access with incorrect/empty passwords. Upon further investigation we found that a configuration error we made allowed anyone with knowledge of the full mailbox name and the IMAP server to