March Newsletter 2026

Hello and welcome to this month's round up of everything that's happening across our community!

This month

Earlier this month, live on Reclaim TV, we launched our brand new VIP Hosting, a new premium level of shared hosting. Jason's post has a quick explainer, so if you are interested in learning more, get in touch and our team will reply to your request ASAP!

Introducing VIP Hosting: Reclaim’s Premium Shared Hosting Experience

At Reclaim Hosting, we’re always looking for ways to better serve our customers in Higher Education and beyond. Over the years we’ve noticed there is a group of users whose needs go beyond standard shared hosting, users who need a solution more robust than our standard shared hosting

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Security and Infrastructure updates

We are finishing up a roll out of our own very simple and lightweight IP blocking tool across our servers. If your curious about it, its open source, so check it out!

GitHub - reclaimhosting/rh-firewall: Simple IP-blocking firewall for Reclaim Hosting

Simple IP-blocking firewall for Reclaim Hosting. Contribute to reclaimhosting/rh-firewall development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Taylor and Noah also did a stream about it last year:

Support, tips and training

Contact us for help & support via our support portal.

FINAL CALL: Register now for Spring admin training

Workshop 1: WordPress Multisite (WPMS) March 10 @ 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Register now . Learn about administering WPMS, explore themes and plug-ins, find out how to build a WPMS that supports your goals and learn more about troubleshooting and how to fix common issues.

Workshop 2: Domain of One’s Own March 19 @ 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Register now . This workshop explores the systems that power DoOO and how they work together. Get comfortable administering and troubleshooting and learn about tools used to manage users and accounts in DoOO. We'll also look at troubleshooting broken sites and what to do when things aren’t working and building engagement and growing your DoOO initiative sustainably.

Events

Find out what's on and register via our events calendar.

OEWeek Live! Open Conversation on Online Communities
March 5 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST
Join us for another OEWeek live streamed open conversation. We are talking today about the state on online communities for open educators.

OEWeek on Reclaim TV: From Experiment to Enterprise Service
March 6 @ 12:00 - 1:00 pm EST
Tune in for this special stream where we’ll premier a brand new case study featuring SUNY Oneonta, alongside other recent Open EdTech case studies (based on interviews conducted over the past 2 years) that show how teams at institutions including Stanford University, Princeton University and develop, scale and deploy open source educational services.

Community Chat
March 25 @ 12:30 - 1:30 pm EST
Join us for the first community chat session of 2026, with Joe Murphy! This is an open event and everyone is welcome! 

Watch the stream over at Reclaim TV, or catch the recording later on archive.reclaim.tv or our YouTube channel!

ILiADS Call for Proposals 2026

The ILiADS Steering Committee welcomes project proposals and liaison applications for the eleventh Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship! This year’s Institute, hosted by Vassar College Libraries in Poughkeepsie, New York, will be held in person July 26-31, 2026. More info.

On the blog

At Reclaim Hosting, we blog #4life. Explore our round up of recent posts:

Support Systems: To be or not to be, emotional.

Welcome to Support Systems! This is my first post in what I am calling my Support Systems series. I’ve been working in support for a while now, and over the years I’ve learned that providing great support is about much more than just solving problems. It’s about

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Get ready for Open Education Week

During Open Education Week, March 2-6 2026, we celebrate all things open here at Reclaim: from open source software and platforms, to open education resources and open data, open pedagogy and open educational technology! Open is in our DNA as a company. For over a decade, we’ve worked hard to

Reclaim the BlogMaren Deepwell

From Tune-Up to Tune-In: A Live Accessibility Review (Recording + Resources)

In case you missed it, we hosted a live “spot the difference” stream to put common web accessibility issues under the microscope earlier this month! As a companion to our Accessibility Tune-Up series, our very own Reclaim Team members compared two seemingly identical webpages to uncover the subtle (and not-so-subtle)

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elsewhere in our blog-o-sphere...

• Turn on your radio #oeweek26 #IWD2026
• What Getting a Minidisc Player Working in 2026 Says About Disposable Infrastructure
• RetroTink-ering
• On Writing with Laura Hilliger

Catch up with the Tetris Tournament Recap, and learn about this event Jim hosted with the Tetris World Champion at the Bava Studio in Trento, Italy.