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Partner Spotlight: Curley Marketing

Lori Curley of Curley Marketing is one of the most dynamic web designers I have had the pleasure of working with.  Lori not only redesigned the ETC Maryland website but she does something not many WordPress designers do:  Every site has its own style.  Templates are...

How NOT to handle a potential security issue

WHMCS has gone from simply being unhelpful to being in denial.  This, unfortunately, is typical for companies today.  I have been digging into this problem since it first cropped up as i noted in my previous post.  Now WHMCS has gone from telling me it is on my end to...

ETC Maryland Hosting Upgrades to IPV6.

Due to the tremendous amounts of addresses afforded by the IPV6 standard, ETC Maryland's data center provider has given ETC Maryland a large block of IPV6 addresses.  With the current generation of IPV4 addresses now nearly gone, IPV6 is the new standard for giving...

Itunes Music Theft of Local Files Continues

Last July I talked about how Apple Music will steal your files from you when Apple decides it has them in its own cloud and then you have to pay to listen to those files.  Now another person has been told this is by design by Apple itself.  Backup, backup, backup....

Apple abandons Quicktime.

It is about time as Quicktime has been slowly dying as even Apple has been shifting to HTML5 and mp4 based videos. If you have this software on your machine it is time to remove it. If you are offered it decline it as it will now be a major entry point for all kinds...

Update to IOS 9.3.1

Now this is a nasty one.  If you are not running IOS 9.3.1 an automated WiFi based attack against your Idevice(which is not that hard to carry out) can permanently brick your expensive Idevice.  The problem is that if your Idevice gets set back to the date of Jan 1,...

Scheduled Maintenance Window

ETC Maryland will be performing various maintenance tasks on it's server fleet.  The maintenance window is midnight Apr 2nd to 1AM Saturday Apr 2.  During this time websites and other services may experience loss of connections or a total outage due to server reboots...

ETC Maryland case badges are here!

I have been drawn back into building custom computers again by request of my clients.  I figured I needed some way of advertising my work...:)  If you want one for a computer I have built for you let me know.  If you want one I have a limited supply and will happily...

ETC Maryland Suffers Major Website Outage

I woke up about 0730 this morning to my phone being alerted that my webserver was offline.  right after that several of my web hosting clients also began texting and messaging me about the issue.  Once i got up I was able to see that not only was my server offline but...

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