by wwarren | Dec 15, 2020 | Podcast, Security, Security Alerts
This is the first in a series of podcasts about the SolarWinds hack. As details come out I will be making more podcasts and providing links in futher posts. Hang on folks..it’s going to be a fun ride. You can download the podcast episode here. Here’s...
by wwarren | Dec 14, 2020 | Annoucements, Hosting
Nathan Neil interviewed me about my hosting product. It’s about 25 minutes long. We talk about why I started my company, my hosting products, how I am different. We also talk about the value I present in the hosting space and how my attention to detail gives...
by wwarren | Dec 9, 2020 | Firewalls, Free/TrueNAS, FreeBSD, Hosting, Linux, Open Source, PFSense
RedHat announces the death of CentOS. To quote the article: In the past, CentOS has been a community build of the current RHEL source, providing a robust production distro for those willing to do without Red Hat support. When RHEL gets a fix, the project aims to have...
by wwarren | Dec 4, 2020 | Annoucements, Free/TrueNAS, Hardware, Open Source
Remember this post? This has been 4 years in the making. I have tested this extensively at my office and at a clients remote location. With ransomware going nuts I am targeting this launch towards protecting against ransomware and offering an affordable, onsite...
by wwarren | Dec 3, 2020 | Comcast, Internet
Comcast released a website that says they are capping residential at 1.2 Terabytes of data usage. If you go over it’s $10/month per 50 gigabytes. Your maximum overage charge is $100/month. At least Comcast is not trying to say it’s for network...
by wwarren | Nov 29, 2020 | Hardware, Security, Security Alerts
ZDNET has a concerning article about UEFI malware found on some PC’s. According to the article this most recent UEFI infection was not the first. The Russian APT group Fancy Bear was using it back in 2018. Things like this usually means you can count on at...
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. ...
by wwarren | Sep 23, 2020 | Hosting, Services
I recently posted about a web hosting client that got their site compromised and how another web developer was wanting what I feel is an exorbitant amount of money for their offered service. I have received a testimonial from the primary web developer of that site:...
by wwarren | Sep 15, 2020 | Annoucements, Hosting
There are some serous ripoff artists out there. I have a acupuncturist who hosts with me on micro and her site got compromised…due to old outdated plugins. Her web programmer said he’d fix it for 75/month recurring. So what did this person do for two...
by wwarren | Aug 8, 2020 | Free/TrueNAS, FreeBSD, Linux, Open Source
“Rapid development” strikes again. FreeNAS has gone down that route and the results are quite predictable. The last 2 releases since their announcement of their new dev model have had at least one regression each..u3 had two of them..including an error they...
