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 tests could reasonably be...

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, but our...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

tl;dr To celebrate our 3rd birthday we are giving you 3 months freewhen 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...

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...

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...