Migrate from Typepad to Opalstack
Why migrate from Typepad to Opalstack? When you migrate from Typepad to Opalstack, you get: Complete ownership of your content — Your blog posts, comments, and media files will be preserved on your own hosting account giving you full control of your content. Modern hosting infrastructure — Built on the latest...
SOCKS over SSH on Opalstack (with Windows & macOS steps)
Did you know you can route your browser traffic with a secure tunnel to any web hosting company which supports SOCKS over SSH? That might be useful! Want per-app, encrypted routing through your Opalstack server without installing a VPN? ...
Our new operating system is here! 🎉
Shared servers and VPS running AlmaLinux 9 are available now! 🚀 Let’s cut right to it: Shared servers running AlmaLinux 9 are now available in Frankfurt, Washington DC, Dallas, San Francisco, and Singapore. VPS running the new operating system are available everywhere we support VPS. What’s new? 🌟 Here’s a...
MCP won’t let me be…
Continuing our series on MCP, In this video John explains what MCP is and a birds eye view of how to deploy an MCP server with django-mcp-server MCP Won’t Let Me Be …or why your LLM needs a wrapper if you want it to ship real code, not just...
Vibe deploy your next app: Introducing Opalstack’s Model‑Context‑Powered Future.
From REST to Vibe Deploy Opalstack’s core platform is built from the ground up not an off‑the‑shelf cPanel clone. We’re wholly owned and operated by experienced software developers many of whom have worked together for almost two decades. We built the platform to solve our own problems: rapid deployment,...
The future of Opalstack has begun.
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...
Opalstack Price Increase
👋 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...
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...