Category Archives: Web Hosting

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…

Double RAM again!

Web Development, Web HostingOban

We’ve doubled the amount of RAM our SmartVPS customers now receive. So for just $9.95 you’ll get a managed VPS that can AutoScale, tunes itself, and come with 2GB’s RAM and 40Gb’s of disk space. You can host a lot of sites or handle a lot of traffic with these bad-boys!

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…

Shared Hosting Vs VPS Hosting?

Systems Administration, Web HostingOban

While Shared hosting ($8.95 per month) can be great, affordable solution for starting web site or blog, a VPS (Virtual Private Server: $19.95 per month) offers significant advantages for web site owners who place a premium on speed, security and scalability.

Target Hack Phishing email scores a 9.00!

Systems Administration, Web Development, Web HostingOban

Target phishing email

I’m super impressed with this Phishing email. Its the best I’ve seen and if it weren’t for just a couple of easy-to-fix mistakes it would have scored a perfect 10.00!

Here’s the back story: Target was hacked early last month. That was big news that most people are aware of. My wife and I were even…

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…

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…

Remember rootkits?