by wwarren | May 30, 2026 | Hosting, Open Source
The company that owns Cpanel, or WHMCS, they will now attempt to take your clients from you. Aside from the security issues and skyrockeitng costs, now they are going to attempt to take your clients from you. Virtualmin is an open source company with solid ethics and...
by wwarren | May 21, 2026 | Cloud Computing, Hosting, Security
This is a story about PocketOS. On April 25th, 2026 They were using an AI agent and it got loose and destroyed their entire database in seconds. The CEO mentions some of their failures, and then turns the blame to their provider, Railway. The problem is, nobody...
by wwarren | May 18, 2026 | Hosting, Open Source, Security
When I started my hosting service more than 10 years ago, I tried several control panels. First was cPanel/WHM. What i found was a panel that had a ton of features but nothing much in terms of data security for account holders. if your site got compromised the...
by wwarren | May 11, 2026 | Microsoft, Security, Windows
Now that i read this closely, it was only a matter of time before this behavior was weaponized. First, I am not saying Drake is Ghostlocker, I am pointing out how it’s default b3ehavior over the past couple of years accentuates this potential issue with how...
by wwarren | Apr 19, 2026 | Security, Security Alerts, Windows
Windows Defender has on ongoing history of system level compromises. Defender has been and continues to be leveraged to take over Windows. Microsoft continues to make bad decisions and poor code security practices leading to their security system being the very door...
by wwarren | Mar 10, 2026 | Annoucements, Hosting, Services
To further enhance our hosting service value, ETC Maryland announces a new hosting plan and significant traffic upgrades to existing plans. ETC Maryland would like to announce our new VPS Nano plan. For sites that do not wish to utilize or are quickly outgrowing...
by wwarren | Mar 1, 2026 | Annoucements, Hosting, Services
With so many hosting providers not giving creators and owners data security for their websites at a reasonable rate, ETC Maryland is pleased to announce all sites going forward now include not only full WordPress security management but also include the full WPMUDEV...
by wwarren | Feb 2, 2026 | Annoucements
As of February 1, ETC Maryland has implemented new rates for the services offered. Hourly consultation has been raised to $175/hour. Hosting rates have also been raised by $5/month for all services. Existing clients will be adjusted as follows. Clients who were...
by wwarren | Dec 16, 2025 | Cloud Computing, General
I just sent this to my local county council: I am a business owner here in Frederick county. I also reside in Frederick county. I send this from my business address as I feel someone from the technology industry with a contrary opinion about data centers needs to...
by wwarren | Oct 20, 2025 | Annoucements, Cloud Computing, Hosting, Services
Amazon suffered a major outage at their east coast 1 region today. This is their largest, and oldest region and has had it fair share of problems due to these two facts. I am hearing many theories at the what happened and Amazon has yet to release their analysis of...
