by wwarren | May 30, 2026 | Hosting, Open Source
The company that owns Cpanel, or WHMCS, they will now attempt to take your clients from you. Aside from the security issues and skyrockeitng costs, now they are going to attempt to take your clients from you. Virtualmin is an open source company with solid ethics and...
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 | 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 | Oct 30, 2023 | Firewalls, FreeBSD, Open Source, PFSense, Security, Ubiquiti
First Netgate announced their move away from PSense free(known as CE). This resulted in outcry but at least they announced their intentions. Recently, Netgate announced the termination of the free homelab PFSense plus license with no option to keep it running. ...
by wwarren | May 5, 2022 | Firewalls, FreeBSD, General, Hardware, Intel, Linux, Open Source, PFSense, Ubiquiti
Well this is for my clients who are curious what I run at y office for my networking:
by wwarren | Nov 29, 2021 | Firewalls, Free/TrueNAS, FreeBSD, Hardware, Intel, Linux, Open Source, PFSense, Storage
My friend Erik Mikula death…for a while really took the wind out of my IT sails. I have the server i ordered right before Erik died….and frankly..it’s been a painful reminder of his sudden removal from this world. I finally came to realize Erik would...
