November 2024: Mid Month Update
Hello and welcome to your quick mid-month summary of all things important and upcoming across our community:
News
Security Update: OWASP Deployment & Rollback
PSA: Reclaim Hosting deployed numerous ModSecurity updates using the built-in OWASP vendor provided by WHM. Due to these updates, many users faced issues like 403 errors, authentication failures, and disconnects. These rules have since been rolled back infrastructure-wide. We are currently revising our policy to implement these rules again in the future, and you can read more about that on our blog as well.
Meet the Open Web UI Installer for Reclaim Cloud
We are excited to announce the newest Reclaim Cloud Installer, OpenWebUI! If you are interested in working with Open Learning Language Models check out our stream around larger open language models to learn more about OpenLLMs and hosting OpenWebUI on Reclaim Cloud.
Upcoming PHP Version Changes
As time goes on and versions change, we need to update our cPanel servers' default PHP versions and remove deprecated versions. The changes will affect Shared Hosting customers and sites hosted on Domain of One's Own and Managed cPanel servers. We've published plans for those changes for 2025.
Convergence 10 Years On
Back in October Meredith Huffman was part of a 10 year anniversary celebration of UMW’s Hurley Convergence Center (originally the Information Technology Convergence Center). Inspired by the event, Jim wrote a post to reflect on his time at UMW with all those awesome folks and projects... 10 Years on!
Open Education community heads to Brisbane
We are proud to support this year's OE Global Conference taking place in Brisbane, Australia, November 13-17th. Community is at the heart of what we do as an independent hosting company in Higher Education, and we are excited to be part of this wonderful event again this year. The key part of our collaboration with OE Global is the 'Conference of the Air' - a radio offering that runs alongside the formal conference schedule.
Don't miss the Reclaim Roundup
Subscribe to our free monthly Roundup and don't miss out on the best GIF game on the open web (and yes, important service updates, security news and free events, too!). The Roundup is scheduled for 11/22 and 12/20, so don't miss out.
Community Chat: The WordPress Drama
November 20th, 12-1pm ET
For this month’s community chat, we thought it made sense to talk about the Automattic and WP Engine drama, what that means for WordPress and the community of folks who use WordPress, and generally provide a place to ask questions, discuss, and share advice.
Read our recent blog post to catch up and start thinking about how to navigate the future of WordPress... and join us and have your say!
Be Kind. Rewind 2024
Join us for Reclaim’s Rewind 2024 to celebrate community, collaboration, and our continued commitment to advocate for the open web in Higher Education and beyond. This month we are taking to the airwaves, our social channels, community forums, and video calls to look back at the best of 2024.
Join us for activities highlighting the best bits from the past year, including case studies and lessons learned. It’s time to take a step back and reflect together on everything we have achieved in partnership with admin, faculty and students, to gather our strength and find some renewed inspiration before the new year starts.
Let’s Rewind 2024 together as you tune in and join the conversation.
What's on Reclaim TV
This month, tune in to Reclaim.TV, live on Fridays at 10am ET:
- November 15 - Moving from Hugo to Ghost . Taylor's making a big CMS switch for his blog, he has lots of feeling about it, and wants to share what he's learned.
- November 22 - Public Obsidian notes on cPanel . Oh yeah, we're back with another Obsidian stream. This time let's look at a static site generator that's pretty easy to use, and designed for Obsidian called Quartz!
And while you're waiting for these streams to premiere, catch up on shows with Reclaim TV On Demand:
You can see the updated schedule at any time by checking out events.reclaimhosting.com!
