From Prompt-Generated Apps to Real Django Infrastructure Loveable is powerful. You describe an app. It generates an app. You deploy something working in minutes. That phase is valuable. But eventually, something shifts. You’re no longer exploring an idea. You’re building a system. And systems need specification. The Hidden
Migrating Your App to Real Django Hosting (Without Losing Your Users) — and Vibe Coding It on Opalstack Firebase is great at one thing: Getting you live fast. But eventually, a lot of teams hit the same wall: * Pricing starts feeling unpredictable. * Auth becomes a black box. * Firestore stops fitting your
Matrix is what you run when you want your own chat without giving a platform permanent custody of your community. Synapse is the “reference” homeserver implementation — and it’s absolutely runnable on managed hosting as long as you treat it like an app (not a snowflake pet server). On Opalstack,
OpenClaw is an open-source “personal AI assistant” built around a Gateway. The Gateway is the whole point: it’s the always-on brain/entrypoint, and everything else is optional. Most “run an AI assistant on a server” guides still assume one of these: * root access * Docker spaghetti * “just systemctl it bro”
Wagtail is what you reach for when you want a real CMS without the “plugin casino” vibe. It’s Django-native, editor-friendly, and built to scale like an actual web app. And now you can run it on Opalstack the way we think apps should run: as an Open App Stack
Most automation stacks fail for one simple reason: You don’t have clean inputs. You have “a thread I saw,” “a DM I meant to follow up on,” “a bug report buried in a forum,” “a spicy quote someone posted,” and zero pipeline to turn that into something usable. n8nCapture
If you’ve been watching the agentic tooling wave, you already know the annoying part: most “AI integrations” assume you’re running Docker, have root, or want to rebuild your stack around somebody else’s platform. VibeShell goes the opposite direction. It’s a single-file PHP MCP server you can
Edit files live on your server from VS Code. No sync. No “deploy”. Just type → save → see it. TL;DR 1. Mount your Opalstack home directory in VS Code using the SSH FS extension. 2. Open your app’s index.html (or template) directly from the server. 3. Let GitHub
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
Did you know you can route your browser traffic with a secure tunnel to any web hosting company which supports SOCKS over SSH? That might be useful! Want per-app, encrypted routing through your Opalstack server without installing a VPN?
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?
Continuing our series on MCP, In this video John explains what MCP is and a birds eye view of how to deploy an MCP server with django-mcp-server MCP Won’t Let Me Be …or why your LLM needs a wrapper if you want it to ship real code, not just
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Signup Now From REST to Vibe Deploy Opalstack’s core platform is built from the ground up not an off‑the‑shelf cPanel clone. We’re wholly owned and operated by experienced software developers many of whom have worked together for almost two decades. We built the platform to solve
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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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In this business a Ruby on Rails project making it into the news gets your attention. We’ve been watching Mastodon grow since the early years and we love the project. It’s become really well known in the last month as Twitter has…done whatever they’re doing. The
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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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What is Nextcloud and why should you migrate to it? Nextcloud is an open source content collaboration suite that has most of the features available in Google Workspace (formerly GSuite, formerly "Google Apps" if you can remember that far back). If you want to host your own private
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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