Summer 2018 Check-In

As my first official Account Manager duty, I’ve been sending out the first of many check-in emails to our Domain of One’s Own schools. I feel that it’s important for institutions to hear from Reclaim Hosting more than the occasional support ticket response or invoice reminder email. These check-in emails are separated primarily into two sections: What’s New and Account Analytics.

The What’s New section (which I’ve copied below) will essentially be a newsletter for our DoOO Liaisons to stay up to date on the latest Reclaim Hosting happenings. I’ll be sharing new documentation articles that are produced, new software updates/releases, upcoming events, and internal changes. The Analytics section will look a little different based on each institution, but the general format will include: number of cPanel accounts, number of installs within Installatron, total disk usage on the server, and top 5 high-bandwidth sites. As a side note- I’ve really enjoyed looking at these URLs! This isn’t a feature I check often, but I’m excited to have a reason to continually go back and look at these. It’s been keeping me somewhat in tune with individual projects at schools and I love that.

From there I’ll include suggestions for how a given DoOO school can be using their environment more efficiently. This may mean recommending that they delete Installatron backups, set user quota limits, or add more block storage to their server. Lastly, I’m using this email as a chance to confirm our contact information for Domain of One’s Own team members. We always want to make sure that emails and notifications are going to to the right people, so its good to check on this every now and then!

The goal here is to send this email out at the end of every Fall and Spring semester so folks will be able to track their growth over time. I’ll be keeping track of the data in an excel sheet that I’m sending to institutions so I can reference it in future correspondence.

You can find the newsletter portion below:

What’s New at Reclaim Hosting:

New Documentation. Creating an Account for a User Outside of Your Institution •  Detecting Activity Through Server StatisticsYour List of Installations •  Advanced User Analytics Tracking

Forcing HTTPS. Starting in July, Google Chrome will begin to display more prevalent warnings for sites not running on https. View Reclaim Hosting’s response here.

Node.js. As of June 15, it is now possible to run to build and run Node.JS applications at Reclaim Hosting. Read more about this here. As a small caveat, CloudLinux, which is required to run Node.js, is not currently on all servers. If this is something that you’re interested in running, please contact Reclaim Hosting support.

Digital Ocean Customer Story. Digital Ocean recently published a case study on Reclaim Hosting- feel free to give it a read.

As of Late. If you’re interested in reading more about what Reclaim Hosting has been up to recently, you can read Jim Groom’s blog post, Catching up with Reclaim Hosting.

Upcoming Event. Reclaim Hosting will be hosting another Workshop of One’s Own for Domain of One’s Own Administrators this Fall on November 1-2. Seating is limited. More information & registration details can be found here.

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