November Newsletter 2026

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

This Month

Reclaim Platforms Fully Patched Against PHP2Shell Vulnerabilities

Our team continues to work hard to ensure the security of our sites and servers in the light of recent PHP2Shell vulnerabilities. In addition to the security updates which were sent out as the situation evolved, we've published this summary post, with a quick overview of the timeline and what we did in response.

Support, Tips, and Training

Contact us for help & support via our support portal.

Mukurtu 4 update for Sharing Hosting and VIP Shared Hosting

Since Mukurtu 4 has been announced we have been working closely with the Mukurtu team to plan for this transition and to support customers who wish to move from Mukurtu 3 to 4. We are happy to confirm that we will be able to offer hosting for Mukurtu 4 sites for Managed Hosting. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer Mukurtu 4 through our Shared Hosting or VIP Shared Hosting Services. Mukurtu 3 sites will continue to be supported through 2027 and we have published more information to help you plan ahead for this transition.

Responding to UpdraftCentral (UpdraftPlus) Compromise

This affected any WordPress sites with the UpdraftPlus plugin installed that are connected to UpdraftCentral/UpdraftVault/UpdraftClone. Catch up with how we responded to the Updraft Central Compromise.

Upcoming Events

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

NEW Navigating security alerts – a Community ProfDev Session for admins
November 18 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
This month we focus on navigating security alerts. This session is particularly relevant for admins managing Domain of One’s Own or Managed Hosting Services, and might also be of interested to Shared Hosting users.

Register

Reclaim Student Showcase 2026
December 16 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Meet this year's student projects from our annual showcase! Hear from the students themselves and join the educators in celebrating working in partnership with students.

Register

and looking ahead to 2027...

Save the Date: Domain of One’s Own workshop in Bryn Mawr
February 23-24, 2027, hosted at Bryn Mawr College, PA
This is the first time we are offering a hands-on workshop on new brand new version of Domain of One’s Own led by our expert team. This is your opportunity to work through applied training and concrete examples of administering and teaching with Domain of One’s Own 2.

Learn more

New on the Reclaim Podcast Network

The Reclaim Podcast Network is where we celebrate the people, ideas, projects, and technologies that make the open web such a vibrant place.

Faces of Reclaim is now available via Castopod, and you can subscribe via the RSS feed; PocketCast and also on YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts, too!

New on the Blog

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

But It Worked Yesterday - When Websites Break Without Warning

Your website can suddenly stop working even when you haven't changed a thing. From software updates and server migrations to security firewalls, we explore some of the behind-the-scenes changes that can cause unexpected website issues.

Reclaim the BlogJason Teitelman

Case Study: Blogs@Baruch

A ReclaimEDU Case Study Blogs@Baruch is a pioneering platform which supports 10,000 student sites and 63,000 registered users to blog at scale. You might say it’s blogging as an enterprise level service . In this case study we hear from Christopher Silsby, Project Manager for Blogs@Baruch,

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Coming up: Digital Agency and Skills Development

Level up your skills with our fall webinar series When: Wednesday, October, 14th Time: 12-1pm EDT In this first session of a new series of training session for students, educators and admins, we will explore how to support digital agency and long-term skills development with bulk-shared hosting.

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in other blogging news... This month, something new launched at the Bava Studio: check out the They Live Diorama, and take a look behind the scenes in They Live: Behind the Foam Core . Also, Jim has been looking back in And it was 10 God Damned Years Ago! . Meanwhile Maren has been reporting from the ALT Annual Conference in Cardiff, UK and, blogged about blogging.