by wwarren | Aug 20, 2021 | Cisco, Firewalls, Security, Security Alerts
Even the big companies end of life products. Security research continues against these devices though as the installed base continues to be very large. These end of life devices present a severe threat to your networks. The Cisco RV110W, RV130, RV130W, and RV215W...
by wwarren | Jul 28, 2021 | Comcast, Internet
Remember this post?Comcast sent a tech out with another modem. This time it was one of their Cisco “towers” as i call it. I got that one installed…and thins got worse. The modem first booted up. the tech then loaded the static IP configuration...
by wwarren | Jul 27, 2021 | Comcast, Firewalls
i ordered a block of 5 static ipv4 from Comcast. Of course they require us to use their modem/gateway device. AND it’s also a technicolor(known in the industry as technicrap). I almost rejected the install right there..and looking back, i should have. The...
by wwarren | Jul 24, 2021 | Free/TrueNAS, FreeBSD, Open Source, Storage
One of a clients backups are using 5-8 terabytes of disk space on a cloud backup. the disk usage on the NAS itself(due to zfs native dompression is 2.7 TB. It’s taken a while to figure out but it turns out Rclone(which is what truenas uses for it’s cloud...
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 | Jul 14, 2021 | Annoucements
ETC Maryland will soon be a DBA of Emmanuel Technology Consulting. As the business has grown the days of sole proprietorship are done. This is going to allow ETC Maryland to grow further and serve clients with a wider selection of services. It will also allow us to...
by wwarren | Jul 4, 2021 | Annoucements, Security, Security Alerts
This is now the SECOND time their VSA product has been compromised. How Kaysea still exists at this point….I have no idea. https://helpdesk.kaseya.com/hc/en-gb/articles/360000333152 (previous compromise)...
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 | 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...
