One ridge, two nerds, a couple of cameras, and lots of snow…

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The Taos Ski Valley ridge opened for the first time this year – nice and early with lots of snow. Of course Dave, our lead systems administrator, suddenly needed the day off (pashaw!!). And my brother Sam, who works for TaosNet and who installed the nearly-famous Ridge-Cam, had some urgent things to…

4.8 years!

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A client's linux server — Many, many days

Mass hacks – Not in our House!

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From a recent Slashdot article:

More than 70,000 websites were compromised in a recent breach of InMotion. Thousands of websites were defaced and others had alterations made to give users a hard time accessing their accounts and fixing the damage. A similar attack hit JustHost back in June, and in a…

Brownrice on the bus!

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Oban Talks Hackers 2011 New Mexico Tour

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The “Oban Talks Hackers 2011 New Mexico Tour” continues this Friday, June 3rd at the prestigious Hotel don Fernando de Taos at 11:30am.

Its $15 for Taos Chamber of Commerce members to attend and $20 for non-members. Note that this loot doesn’t line my pockets, it goes toward the fantastic hotel lunch…

PowerDNS migration creates bug ripples

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There is nothing more tricky and fraught with potential problems than DNS upgrades.

This week we migrated from BIND to PowerDNS. Prior to the migration we dutifully tested PowerDNS on different servers, in different configurations, consulted other sysadmins who were running PowerDNS, and found all…

Android email set up video…

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From the warm confines of our Support FAQ, I present to you a video called: “How one sets up their Android phone to send and receive email on the Brownrice servers.” Descriptive and catchy title, eh?

Not Enough Nines!

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For the second year in a row we experienced something like 99.9999999999999999999 network uptime. Yes, we had a server have issues here and there, but never for more than a few minutes. And one of our upstream pipes went down once or twice, but it never affected our users as the BGP routing switched…

PHP MySQL AJAX developer position available at Brownrice

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Business is good so we’re hiring again! This on-site, part-time developer position could easily grow to be a full-time gig for the right person. See the details here:

http://programming.brownrice.com/jobs

The most secure shared hosting – Brownrice!

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Until recently our shared hosting servers suffered from some of the same vulnerabilities that many of the volume-based hosting providers do. Namely, if one site on a shared server was hacked it was possible for the hacker to deface other sites on the same server that had files or directories with…

The Boutique Hoster

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One ridge, two nerds, a couple of cameras, and lots of snow…

4.8 years!

Mass hacks – Not in our House!

Brownrice on the bus!

Oban Talks Hackers 2011 New Mexico Tour

PowerDNS migration creates bug ripples

Android email set up video…

Not Enough Nines!

PHP MySQL AJAX developer position available at Brownrice

The most secure shared hosting – Brownrice!