by wwarren | Feb 1, 2025 | Annoucements, Hosting, Linux, Open Source
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...
by wwarren | Feb 1, 2025 | Annoucements, Hosting
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...
by wwarren | Jan 20, 2025 | Annoucements, Hosting
With our new datacenter partners ETC Maryland can now announce new hosting services for sites that either have high traffic needs or hosting without the limitations of shared hosting. The two new Services are virtual Private Servers. Two types of VPS servers are...
by wwarren | Apr 2, 2023 | Annoucements, AVG
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...
by wwarren | Dec 26, 2022 | Annoucements, Cloud Computing, Security, Security Alerts
There’s tons of stories about the LastPass breech and most of them downlplay things saying your data is encrypted so the vaults getting stolen is not a big deal. Well that’s not true at all. I do not know if folks are purposefully downlplaying or they...
by wwarren | Oct 5, 2022 | Annoucements
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...
