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…

We’ve loved you for many long-times CentOS, but we’ve moved on… And, well, its you, not us.

And Hello AlmaLinux 9!

CentOS was very good to us for decades of solid and fast hosting. In fact we built our entire hosting business off of it. However, when CentOS switched to stream-based updates we decided…

Worry free software updates: When you sign up Brownrice WordPress Management we’ll update your WordPress core software, as well as all plugins and themes each month, ensuring that your site is always running the freshest software.  This also helps ensure that your site doesn’t get hacked…

It was a heckuva busy pandemic for us here at Brownrice and we thought you might be interested in some of the things that we’ve been doing behind the scenes to ensure that your web sites, webcams, email, and servers are serving up the things they serve quickly, securely, and reliably!

We’re extremely pleased to announce our new GeoSync Cluster hosting. A GeoSync Cluster is a fully automated, three-VPS cluster of servers spread across three data centers, in three different time zones. If one data center goes offline your web site’s traffic will be automatically redirected to the…

Our new 50kW solar parking structure has been live for a few weeks now, and WOW, we’re loving this. For a few hours each day its producing more power than our entire building is using: That includes our data center, our offices, and all lightening and cooling for Brownrice as well as THREE other…

First of all, many thanks to the wonderful Let’s Encrypt community for all the help with this, credit where credit is due: https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/rhel-centos-6-openssl-client-compatibility-after-dst-root-ca-x3-expiration/161032

That is a lengthy thread, and after a lot of trial and error…