by wwarren | Dec 13, 2021 | Amazon, Apple, Apple, Cisco, Dell, Firewalls, Google, Hosting, Microsoft, Oracle, Security, Security Alerts, Service Status, Sophos, Ubiquiti, UTM
There is a logging library that is used extensively throughout the Technology industry. It has gotten a security rating of 10 which is very very rare…i personally have not heard of one during my nearly 30 years in this industry. You can see the looooong list...
by wwarren | Dec 9, 2021 | Amazon, Cloud Computing, Hosting, Service Status, Services
ETC Maryland does not run any services on a third party cloud. The one thing the cloud providers don’t tell you is that if you stay with their lower end plans(and most folks do) you are restricted to one zone. WHEN that zone has a problem..you have no...
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 | 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 22, 2021 | Annoucements, Service Status, Services
You can also see there service alerts on the Twitter page. This upcoming Sunday Jun 27, all web services will be offline from 5pm until midnight. This is to facilitate a server replacement and upgrade. New hardware, operating system, and Internet connection will all...
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 and increased system stability. ...