Category Archives: Programming

How do I clone my website to another site, like a development site?

Programming, Web Development, Web HostingOban

It’s easy to clone a website (including its files, database and all settings) from a live site to a development via the Brownrice Dashboard. Or you can do the opposite and clone a development website and/or database to your live site when you want to move development changes live. Or you can clone a…

Letsencrypt, Free, Automated SSL certificates for life!

Programming, Systems Administration, Web HostingOban

Letsencrypt automated SSL – No click SSL!

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve fully automated our LetsEncrypt SSL installation process for all of our Managed VPS customers.

What does this mean? This means that every Brownrice Managed VPS customer receives UNLIMITED FREE SSL certificates for every web site on any Managed Brownrice VPS…

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…

This blog has seven days to get hacked

Programming, Systems Administration, Web HostingOban

I’m speaking at Wordcamp Albuquerque 2013 a week from today. My session is called Hacked! How they hack it and how you clean it where I’ll dissect a real-life WordPress hack and show everyone how I suavely and bravely root out the hacker, sleuthily determine how he got into the site, and then kick…

Hacker extraction – New personal best: 10 minutes!

Programming, Systems Administration, Web HostingOban

Last night, just before turning off the lights and harassing my wife, I received a text message from our server monitoring software saying that the mail queue on one of our shared web servers had suddenly spiked. Lots of emails being pumped out of a shared web server is almost always the sign of…

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Category Archives: Programming

How do I clone my website to another site, like a development site?

Letsencrypt, Free, Automated SSL certificates for life!

Announcing VPS Auto-Tune!

This blog has seven days to get hacked

Hacker extraction – New personal best: 10 minutes!