Category Archives: Datacenters

What’s inside a Brownrice SmartVPS?

Datacenters, Systems Administration, Web HostingOban

What goes into the Brownrice SmartVPS? First off, we use OpenVZ as our virtualization software. OpenVZ container virtualization is by far the best solution for our customers because 1) Its wicked fast and 2) We can configure it so that our custom AutoTune, AutoScale, and Server Management scripts…

Quad SSD on RAID-10 hosting with free SSL

Datacenters, Web Development, Web HostingOban

Hosting web sites on a 4xSSD Brownrice SmartVPS is so fast it’ll make even the slowest sites rip!

After extensive testing we’ve super-charged our SmartVPS platform so that every new SmartVPS ($7.95 per month, 2GB RAM, 1 CPU core, 10GB 4xSSD disk) comes with the fastest disk IO currently on the…

Announcing VPS Auto-Tune!

Datacenters, Programming, Systems Administration, Web HostingOban

After a full year in development and testing Brownrice Internet has just released our revolutionary VPS Auto-Tune Service.

What is VPS Auto-Tune and why do you need it?

One of the secrets of hosting companies and systems administrators world-wide is that web and database servers that are left in their…

A few weeks ago an energy inspector dropped by and asked for a tour of our data center. Yikes!

This is what he had to say after he left:

Oban & Vanessa,

Thanks for showing me your new data center. As the Commercial Public Relations Coordinator for the 3rd largest municipal utility in Texas I am always…

Building yet another massive VPS host machine!

Datacenters, Systems AdministrationOban

Data Center manager Logan building yet another screaming VPS host machine: 24 CPU cores, 128GB RAM with 8 Hard Drives running on an LSI hardware RAID controller configured with RAID 10! Suck it SSD! Blazing writes plus real redundancy! (Yep, we spend too much money on our servers. And yes, all of…

Why trust your data to this small hosting company? (with video)

DatacentersOban

Brownrice outperforms everyone.

We pride ourselves on our ability to match and surpass the big providers in speed, reliability, redundancy and support. We’ve built our network and our data center from the ground up based on our years of hands-on experience. We don’t use third-party data centers – only our own. “We’re waiting for…

How many visits can a virtual server handle?

Datacenters, Systems Administration, Web HostingOban

There are a lot of variables that go into how many hits and visits a virtual server can handle; from how efficient the site’s code is, to how beefy the host server is, to how over-sold the host server is (among other things.) Regardless, I still thought you might be interested in seeing some real…

What security tools do we use?

Datacenters, Systems Administration, Web HostingOban

What tools does Brownrice use to alert us to a compromised hosted web site or server? Let me show you:

OSSEC: A great open source tool that constantly monitors server log files and file systems in real-time. OSSEC’s log monitoring helps with an important part of PCI Compliance, it can be configured…

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Category Archives: Datacenters

What’s inside a Brownrice SmartVPS?

Quad SSD on RAID-10 hosting with free SSL

Announcing VPS Auto-Tune!

Building yet another massive VPS host machine!

Why trust your data to this small hosting company? (with video)

How many visits can a virtual server handle?

What security tools do we use?