Matrix is what you run when you want your own chat without giving a platform permanent custody of your community. Synapse is the “reference” homeserver implementation — and it’s absolutely runnable on managed hosting as long as you treat it like an app (not a snowflake pet server). On Opalstack,
OpenClaw is an open-source “personal AI assistant” built around a Gateway. The Gateway is the whole point: it’s the always-on brain/entrypoint, and everything else is optional. Most “run an AI assistant on a server” guides still assume one of these: * root access * Docker spaghetti * “just systemctl it bro”
Wagtail is what you reach for when you want a real CMS without the “plugin casino” vibe. It’s Django-native, editor-friendly, and built to scale like an actual web app. And now you can run it on Opalstack the way we think apps should run: as an Open App Stack
Most automation stacks fail for one simple reason: You don’t have clean inputs. You have “a thread I saw,” “a DM I meant to follow up on,” “a bug report buried in a forum,” “a spicy quote someone posted,” and zero pipeline to turn that into something usable. n8nCapture
If you’ve been watching the agentic tooling wave, you already know the annoying part: most “AI integrations” assume you’re running Docker, have root, or want to rebuild your stack around somebody else’s platform. VibeShell goes the opposite direction. It’s a single-file PHP MCP server you can
Edit files live on your server from VS Code. No sync. No “deploy”. Just type → save → see it. TL;DR 1. Mount your Opalstack home directory in VS Code using the SSH FS extension. 2. Open your app’s index.html (or template) directly from the server. 3. Let GitHub
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 technologies
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?
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?
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
Signup Now 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 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