by wwarren | Nov 24, 2019 | Annoucements, Hosting, Services
ETC Maryland has enabled the Ubuntu Kernel Livepatch service. This means the amount of times the servers will have to reboot for kernel updates will be reduced by more than 95%. Only in the rare occurrence when a kernel update is too major to be done without rebooting...
by wwarren | Aug 11, 2019 | Annoucements
It took a long time for me to settle on a control panel for all of the ETC Maryland hosting offers. There are the big ones like Cpanel, Plesk and others. I saw their pricing and I also trialed them on the servers I was going to start my hosting business on. They...
by wwarren | Jun 26, 2019 | Annoucements, Hosting
Over the next year ETC Maryland going to be consolidating the web farm. While the older Intel machines might be a good value, the continuing security issues that are being found is beginning to take it’s toll. The performance decrease from the various security...
by wwarren | Feb 13, 2019 | Annoucements
Lots of things going on for ETC Maryland. Thanks to the partnership with Solinkit I have picked up another reseller for web hosting. I have also picked up a partnership with a vendor who does cabling and other types of installs. I met with him today at a client site...
by wwarren | Feb 10, 2019 | Annoucements, Services, Uncategorized
Next Sunday night the oldest of ETC Maryland’s webservers(web1) will go offline for approximately 3 hours as the operating system gets a much needed upgrade. I have run CentOS7 from the outset of my hosting business and while it is still supported, I am spending...
by wwarren | Dec 30, 2018 | Annoucements, Microsoft, Uncategorized, Windows, Windows365
I was interviewed for an article on the state of Windows 10. Windows 10/Server 2016 REALLY needs to have the QA team brought back. Microsoft is seriously affecting the security of their products. I am not the only one holding off on multiple versions(not several as...
