by wwarren | Oct 1, 2020 | Annoucements, Hosting, Service Status
ETC Maryland takes server security seriously. One way ETC Maryland provides is to make sure the Linux version used are Long Term Support releases. This maintains the code base at a set level. This also means a reduced bug count. Sometimes this mean...
by wwarren | Sep 23, 2020 | Hosting, Services
I recently posted about a web hosting client that got their site compromised and how another web developer was wanting what I feel is an exorbitant amount of money for their offered service. I have received a testimonial from the primary web developer of that site:...
by wwarren | Sep 15, 2020 | Annoucements, Hosting
There are some serous ripoff artists out there. I have a acupuncturist who hosts with me on micro and her site got compromised…due to old outdated plugins. Her web programmer said he’d fix it for 75/month recurring. So what did this person do for two...
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 | 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 | Oct 28, 2018 | Hosting, Linux, Services
Just like Sun got borged by oracle IBM has borged RedHat: Press Release by RedHat I posted I am moving to Ubuntu in a recent post. This has the effect of moving me even faster. This also explains why there has been ZERO movement towards a RHEL 8 alpha. In order to...
