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...
by wwarren | Aug 28, 2018 | Annoucements, Hosting, Linux, Open Source, Service Status, Services
RedHat is out to make money…I do not begrudge them that. However they have now resorted to moving things into their own form of lock-in via directory services: RedHat KB Page Considering that directory services is a HUGE portion of any large network layout, it...
by wwarren | Aug 8, 2018 | Annoucements, Hosting, Services
Does your webhost provide everything in this video? ETC Maryland hosting does. One of the biggest security lapses is ongoing maintenance of the website code. This is keeping the sites code updated, protected, account isolation, and multiple layer(and as a...
by wwarren | Jul 24, 2018 | Annoucements, Domains, Hosting, Services
I have seen other web hosting companies claim they have free backups, but what do those backups consist of? The backups that are offered are simply a copy, compressed into one file and then stored locally on the machine that hosts the site. Worse yet most times...