by wwarren | Jan 22, 2025 | Android, Cloud Computing, Google, IOT
In summary..if you have a Pixel 8 Pro or Samsung S24 Ultra, The S25 series and Pixel 9 are not compelling upgrades. If you have a phone that’s more than two years old then upgrading might be a good idea. However, the Pixel 8 Pro and the Samsung S24 series will...
by wwarren | Jan 20, 2025 | Annoucements, Hosting
With our new datacenter partners ETC Maryland can now announce new hosting services for sites that either have high traffic needs or hosting without the limitations of shared hosting. The two new Services are virtual Private Servers. Two types of VPS servers are...
by wwarren | Aug 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
https://mashable.com/article/google-chrome-killing-ad-blocker-ublock-origin Google I said they’re going to in support and they’re specifically targeting you block origin. That’s mainly because you block origin is excellent at blocking ads including...
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 | Oct 25, 2023 | Firewalls, PFSense
Remmber this post? I had mentioned I was going to move away from PFSense CE because Netgate said they are turning their focus to PFSense Plus. They then started saying come to PFSense+ for homelab..it’s free and eventually wil be $129/year. Well that has now...
by wwarren | Apr 2, 2023 | Annoucements, AVG
Avast has informed me a significant price increase starting January 1, 2024. As of this date ETC Maryland’s managed anti-malware by Avast will increase to $50/machine per year. If you know someone who wants or needs managed anti-malware have them contact me...
by wwarren | Dec 26, 2022 | Annoucements, Cloud Computing, Security, Security Alerts
There’s tons of stories about the LastPass breech and most of them downlplay things saying your data is encrypted so the vaults getting stolen is not a big deal. Well that’s not true at all. I do not know if folks are purposefully downlplaying or they...
by wwarren | Oct 5, 2022 | Annoucements
in January 2023 i will be updating web1 is virtualmin 7 along with Ubuntu lts 22.01LTS. The biggest change will be the base PHP will upgrade to PHP 8.1 Previous versions will not be installed. Most clients running WordPress should not have any issues. as the time for...
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 | Apr 13, 2022 | Annoucements, Security, Security Alerts, Services
If you use the elementor plug-in for WordPress to help design your website, it is a source of remote compromise for your website. The word fence security team found the vulnerability and reported it to elementor. A patch has now been released. Etc. Maryland fully...
