We’ve just finished rolling out an exciting batch of template updates to all SmartVPS customers on our Alma9 template!

Two new PHP versions are available! PHP 8.4 and 8.5, which are available to be used for your websites and/or your VPS’s PHP-CLI! These are the latest/greatest PHP versions that offer…

With Brownrice Webcam Recording, your live stream can be saved for later — ready to view, download, embed, or share whenever you need it.

You just have to enable recordings first.

We say this with love, and also because Future You deserves nice things: recordings are not retroactive magic. If…

Picture this—you’ve just launched a product and hit send on the announcement… and WordPress picks today to be your worst nightmare.

A plugin update breaks something.
A theme falls out of sync.
The site slows down—or worse, goes down entirely.

Most of the time, it’s not one big failure.
It’s small things…

This week has been a whirlwind for Linux vulnerabilities! Fortunately for you, Brownrice is on it!

There are five new vulnerabilities that affect modern Apache versions:

CVE-2026-23918
CVE-2026-24072
CVE-2026-28780
CVE-2026-29168
CVE-2026-29169

The main two being CVE-2026-23918 and CVE-2026-24072. One is a…

You might have heard the buzz, there’s a new Linux ‘Copy Fail’ vulnerability – CVE-2026-31431. ‘Copy Fail’ is a recently discovered exploit that affects all newer Linux kernels and is very serious. It’s a privilege escalation exploit that should be patched immediately on all affected production…

Sometimes a speedy WordPress site feels as rare as spotting a unicorn in the wild. Pages crawl, images lag, and visitors bounce before you can say “loading enchanted pixels.”

The good news? You don’t need magic to make your site fast. You just need a few smart, proven optimizations—and we’ve gathered…

If your server is being scanned by security software that software may very well tell you that you have a security vulnerability with regards to the SSHD version. Specifically it may say that your server is vulnerable to CVE-2024-6387. Here’s what we’ve done for our Brownrice SmartVPS hosting…

Yesterday, September 14th, 2023, Lumen rerouted one of our internet pipes so that there are longer any overlapping areas where both of our outgoing fiber connections are physically near each other.

Additionally, the morning before, on September 13th, 2023, we successfully completed our final failover…