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When your cloud goes poof.

Dropbox has lost client data permanently, Google drive has as well, now it's Amazon's turn.  Amazon deleted a person's 10 year old account...and there was no backup.  What most folks do not understand is that most times your service is best effort.  The provider makes...

Some Basics To Keep Yourself From Scams

I had the pleasure of being a guest speaker on the Be The Hummingbird podcast.  Laura is a certified financial planner out of Walkersville, MD.  We talked about some real basic steps you can take to protect yourself...and not simply trusting in technology to protect...

Maryland Waves Goodbye to Businesses

Maryland has passed the sales tax on IT services. Of course, they are not thinking that IT is easily moved out of state. Every facet of my business is impacted by this. It is not "only" a 3 percent tax.  There are additional compliance costs as well.  I am going to...

Two BSD projects start

PFSense is becoming closed source as announced by Netgate. IXSystems has take TrueNAS to Linux with Scale away from its BSD roots.  While OPNSense is a BSD based firewall and often completes with PFSense they are based in Europe and do nto have 24 hour tech support. ...

My Linux Journey

For the first 10 years of my hosting service I have used Ubuntu Server LTS.  Ubuntu has become quite bloated and the amount of time I spent turning off cruft in the background has gotten to be on par with Windows.  With RedHat now being totally a paid for product that...

ETC Maryland Enhances Web Hosting Offerings

ETC Maryland would like to announce a further expansion of our hosting products.  With our new datacenter partners, new opportunities have presented themselves and we would like to pass these opportunities to the general public.  We would like to announce the...

My Thoughts on the S25 Series.

In summary..if you have a Pixel 8 Pro or Samsung S24 Ultra, The S25 series and Pixel 9 are not compelling upgrades. If you have a phone that's more than two years old then upgrading might be a good idea. However, the Pixel 8 Pro and the Samsung S24 series will be a...

Important Service Priding Announcement

Avast has informed me a significant price increase starting January 1, 2024.  As of this date ETC Maryland's managed anti-malware by Avast will increase to $50/machine per year.  If you know someone who wants or needs managed anti-malware have them contact me before...

Hosting Server Upgrade Announcement

in January 2023 i will be updating web1 is virtualmin 7 along with Ubuntu lts 22.01LTS. The biggest change will be the base PHP will upgrade to PHP 8.1 Previous versions will not be installed. Most clients running WordPress should not have any issues. as the time for...

Consulting Price Increase Announcement

With the current inflationary trends and increased costs across the board, ETC Maryland is announcing fee increases.  Effective April 2nd, the base fee will increase to $150/hr.  Current clients on all tiers will also see a $25/hr fee increase.  This will be the first...

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