Mastodon hosting is here! 🎉
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 yourself! It...
Mastodon head first: Opalstack.social
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 best part about...
Say hello 👋 to the Opalstack Mastodon instance!
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 clear that people are...
import opalstack
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/opalstack/ Github: https://github.com/opalstack/opalstack-python Almost everything...
Your ultimate guide to migrating from Google Workspace to Nextcloud
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 Docs,...
It’s Opalstack’s 3rd Birthday 🎂 and you can save an extra 10% on all of our annual plans! 🎉
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 most parts of...
Opalstack Updates – New features, SXSW, and more!
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 of...
Mid year updates: Part 1/3 – a new dashboard! ✨
Some of the most consistent feedback we’ve received over the last couple years has been about 2 things: The speed, design, and usability of the dashboard The time it takes for changes to propagate from the dashboard to the server We’ve spent the last 6 months working to solve...
Notice: WebFaction accounts that can’t get migrated will be cancelled in 4 days.
⚠️ 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 them...
Opalstack Notice: Opted-out WebFaction accounts will be cancelled in 8 days!
👋 Hi! It’s been a while since you’ve heard from all of us at Opalstack. Things have been quite busy over the last month since WebFaction announced their official closing plans! First up – the warning: 🚨🚨🚨 If you opted-out of being migrated to tsoHost you only 11 days...