by wwarren | Sep 23, 2021 | Hosting, Linux, Open Source, Service Status
I was at my office workstation looking at web1 when suddenly my site…and every other site on web 1..vanished. All i started seeing was MySQL database connection errors. The amount of errors escalated until MySQL crashed completely. Attempts to restart MySQL...
by wwarren | Jul 20, 2021 | Annoucements, Hosting
The folks at Wordfence have a good video about the new WordPress revision 5.8. It’s got some new image type support along with a removal of support for internet Explorer. There’s other feature updates as well. Fully managed clients will be getting...
by wwarren | Jun 30, 2021 | Annoucements, Hosting, Security, Service Status
ETC Maryland has services for those who want fully managed hosting to if you want to do nearly everything yourself. Let’s go through the points Wordfence raises: Backups. We do two backups per day. One is at noon and is on another server in the datacenter. ...
by wwarren | Jun 27, 2021 | Annoucements, Hosting, Services
I just completed a server replacement. Here’s the vitals on the two machines: Old Web1: Dual Xeon 6 core L5640 12 cores w/HT @ 2,2ghz for a total of 24 threads cpu release date 2010 64 gigs ram dual ssd’s in RAID1. 50 megabit connection Ubuntu 18.04 LTS...
by wwarren | Mar 17, 2021 | Annoucements, Hosting, Security Alerts
The wildly popular Elementor site builder plugin has a vulnerability that can allow a third party site to secretly compromise a WordPress site if the user is logged into the site as the administrator. Normally when you are on one site..a third party site is blocked...
by wwarren | Mar 9, 2021 | Hosting, Security, Security Alerts
A plugin for the Elementor sitebuilder has a major vulnerability that allow remote attackers to create administrative accounts without any need for authentication. The admin users can then do anything a WordPress user can do which is add or remove content, create or...
