by wwarren | Jun 26, 2019 | Annoucements, Hosting
Over the next year ETC Maryland going to be consolidating the web farm. While the older Intel machines might be a good value, the continuing security issues that are being found is beginning to take it’s toll. The performance decrease from the various security...
by wwarren | Jun 25, 2019 | Firewalls, PFSense, Ubiquiti
Unifi is a great networking system. For less than a quarter of the price you can do most things with it that Meraki can…but no subscriptions. The gear mostly just works and it is very easy to setup. The Unifi firewalls do have some serious shortcomings:...
by wwarren | May 31, 2019 | Google, Google Apps, Office 365
it’s been 10+ years with me on the Gsuite platform…but today I had something that pushed me over the edge. I have had a Gsuite account for more than 10 years. That account has my life on it and my phones now know me very well. All of that..the apps, the...
by wwarren | Feb 13, 2019 | Annoucements
Lots of things going on for ETC Maryland. Thanks to the partnership with Solinkit I have picked up another reseller for web hosting. I have also picked up a partnership with a vendor who does cabling and other types of installs. I met with him today at a client site...
by wwarren | Feb 10, 2019 | Annoucements, Services, Uncategorized
Next Sunday night the oldest of ETC Maryland’s webservers(web1) will go offline for approximately 3 hours as the operating system gets a much needed upgrade. I have run CentOS7 from the outset of my hosting business and while it is still supported, I am spending...
by wwarren | Dec 30, 2018 | Annoucements, Microsoft, Uncategorized, Windows, Windows365
I was interviewed for an article on the state of Windows 10. Windows 10/Server 2016 REALLY needs to have the QA team brought back. Microsoft is seriously affecting the security of their products. I am not the only one holding off on multiple versions(not several as...
by wwarren | Nov 3, 2018 | Annoucements
This is from one of my hosting clients The Christian Gamer’s Alliance. They used to be on a dedicated server and now they run inside my standard hosting plan. Their site now runs faster on my shared hosting platform than it did on their dedicated server. ...
by wwarren | Oct 28, 2018 | Hosting, Linux, Services
Just like Sun got borged by oracle IBM has borged RedHat: Press Release by RedHat I posted I am moving to Ubuntu in a recent post. This has the effect of moving me even faster. This also explains why there has been ZERO movement towards a RHEL 8 alpha. In order to...
by wwarren | Sep 15, 2018 | Hardware, Research Projects
It has been a while since I have been able to post about any kind of research I am doing. Right now I am figuring out just exactly how I want to build my new rack mounted PfSense firewall to replace my USG-pro-4. I want this machine to be fast enough to eventually...
by wwarren | Aug 28, 2018 | Annoucements, Hosting, Linux, Open Source, Service Status, Services
RedHat is out to make money…I do not begrudge them that. However they have now resorted to moving things into their own form of lock-in via directory services: RedHat KB Page Considering that directory services is a HUGE portion of any large network layout, it...
