Since RedHat decided to kill off the CentOS (Community Enterprise Operating System) and replace it with the Fedora releases we have been looking at alternative Linux operating systems to power our servers. We have been very happy with the efforts of AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux. Both are nearly identical, except for branding and both products […]
Matt Mullenweg calls WP Engine a ‘cancer to WordPress’ and urges community to switch providers
Updated 9/26/2024 Article: Matt Mullenweg calls WP Engine a ‘cancer to WordPress’ and urges community to switch providers We have know for a long time that WPEngine has been really good at marketing and not so good at providing a decent product. WP Engine has a long history of bait-and-switch tactics with their customers. We […]
Vultr: Living up to their name, unacceptable TOS
This morning we received word of a new Terms of Service from one our infrastructure providers, Vultr, owned by Constant.com. Within their TOS they outline that they claim ownership of any content that is placed on their servers. An excerpt from the new TOS (which we have NOT agreed to) is below: ==== information, text, […]
The big deal about WMD DNS Passes
WMD’s DNS Manager We are very excited to debut our DNS manager system! This system allows you to manage DNS records regardless of where they are hosted. The need for this came about when editing DNS records became much more important to managing web services. See, some entities require verification of domain ownership by creating […]
Stating the obvious: You Can’t Trust Google
We have long preached about Google being a privacy vampire, finding any little way possible to monetize on every click you make. Why do you think so many of their services are “free” as in “cost no money”? Everything you put into Google is stored and your profile information is sold to whomever bids on […]
WMD & Hurricane Ian
Our thoughts are with everyone in Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas and other states in the wake of Hurricane Ian. We have data centers around the world with the majority located in New York and San Francisco. We do have a data center in Miami, Florida that hosts a few sites for our clients in that […]
The Vatican Moves to Zimbra
If it’s secure enough for the Pontiff… Vatican City has consolidated all of their various email technologies into an on-premises hosted Zimbra solution. The Dicastery faced an all too common situation. They hadto integrate different groups, with different email platforms and data in different datacenters, onto one email system. They had users on Oracle Communications […]
Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities: On it.
This week a web vulnerability was discovered that impacts virtually every processor manufactured since 1995. The vulnerability is being referred to as “Meltdown” and “Spectre”. Of course, we want you to know that we’ve got you covered. Most of our servers run a variant of the RedHat Linux operating system which released patches for the […]
WordFence: 5 Security Questions For Your Hosting Company
The folks at WordFence have a new blog post that caught our attention titled 5 Security Questions For Your Hosting Company. We read it with interest and can would like to take this opportunity to answer all of their questions: The first question is a multi-part question so we are going to break it down […]
May 2016: We have changed some things!
Hello! We have changed a few things around here and are going to be making some big announcements in the coming weeks. We have been incredibly busy lately but wanted to get the new site out the door so can be adding to it while it’s live rather than waiting for it to be perfectly […]