by wwarren | Jun 9, 2016 | Annoucements, Hosting, Services
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...
by wwarren | May 13, 2016 | Annoucements, Cisco, Dell, Meraki, Sonicwall
ETC Maryland has the distinct pleasure of announcing three new vendors to its stable of trusted vendors: 1. Sonicwall(Dell) 2. Meraki(Cisco) 3. Cisco These new partnerships allow ETC Maryland to handle network needs from the smallest home need to our maximum sized...
by wwarren | Apr 2, 2016 | Annoucements, Cisco, Dell, Meraki, Security, Sonicwall, Sophos, UTM
Astaro was probably the best edge UTM out there for quite some time. I used them from the first v4 all the way up until now. Astaro was then purchased by Sophos and it became a morass of corporate interference, no service to their smaller partners, a series of badly...
by wwarren | Apr 1, 2016 | Annoucements, Service Status
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...
by wwarren | Mar 30, 2016 | Annoucements
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...
by wwarren | Mar 24, 2016 | Annoucements, Ransomware, Security, Security Alerts
I have been watching with concern as ransomware spreads nearly unchecked throughout the world. Many ways are being discussed but I chose to focus on recovery. Local backups are now no longer safe as if you get a ransomware infestation these malware packages start...
