by wwarren | Jan 24, 2020 | Firewalls, Security, Ubiquiti, Uncategorized, WIFI
This is a client that has become a very loyal client. For the longest time their network had no real segmentation. Their Cc machine was on the same network as the wifi guest network and all of them were on the same subnet as their main internal network. ...
by wwarren | Nov 24, 2019 | Annoucements, Hosting, Services
ETC Maryland has enabled the Ubuntu Kernel Livepatch service. This means the amount of times the servers will have to reboot for kernel updates will be reduced by more than 95%. Only in the rare occurrence when a kernel update is too major to be done without rebooting...
by wwarren | Oct 31, 2019 | Security, Security Alerts
oh yes we always see this when a breach occurs: “Safeguarding our customer’s information is core to our mission. We are committed to protecting our customers against misuse of their information and have invested heavily in cybersecurity,” Network Solutions...
by wwarren | Sep 14, 2019 | Ubiquiti, WIFI
I REALLY like the Unifi line by Ubiquity. For the vast majority of small business needs it has everything you need without the high price tag of Meraki/Cisco and other vendors. This is a very long time client who has a local accounting business. For the longest...
by wwarren | Aug 11, 2019 | Annoucements
It took a long time for me to settle on a control panel for all of the ETC Maryland hosting offers. There are the big ones like Cpanel, Plesk and others. I saw their pricing and I also trialed them on the servers I was going to start my hosting business on. They...
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...
