by wwarren | May 21, 2026 | Cloud Computing, Hosting, Security
This is a story about PocketOS. On April 25th, 2026 They were using an AI agent and it got loose and destroyed their entire database in seconds. The CEO mentions some of their failures, and then turns the blame to their provider, Railway. The problem is, nobody...
by wwarren | May 18, 2026 | Hosting, Open Source, Security
When I started my hosting service more than 10 years ago, I tried several control panels. First was cPanel/WHM. What i found was a panel that had a ton of features but nothing much in terms of data security for account holders. if your site got compromised the...
by wwarren | Mar 10, 2026 | Annoucements, Hosting, Services
To further enhance our hosting service value, ETC Maryland announces a new hosting plan and significant traffic upgrades to existing plans. ETC Maryland would like to announce our new VPS Nano plan. For sites that do not wish to utilize or are quickly outgrowing...
by wwarren | Mar 1, 2026 | Annoucements, Hosting, Services
With so many hosting providers not giving creators and owners data security for their websites at a reasonable rate, ETC Maryland is pleased to announce all sites going forward now include not only full WordPress security management but also include the full WPMUDEV...
by wwarren | Oct 20, 2025 | Annoucements, Cloud Computing, Hosting, Services
Amazon suffered a major outage at their east coast 1 region today. This is their largest, and oldest region and has had it fair share of problems due to these two facts. I am hearing many theories at the what happened and Amazon has yet to release their analysis of...
by wwarren | Aug 6, 2025 | Hosting, Security, Services
I got a notification from my primary web server that it was having some issues. When i logged in and looked at the logs and the system behavior…I knew something was amiss. I decided to restore the system from my first level, backups which are provided by the...
