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

We’ve got a dual cpu, quad-core server available on our racks right now that could be yours for $168.00 per month.  Yep, that’s 8 CPU’s and 4GB of RAM powering 1 Terabyte of drive space in a 3ware RAID 5 array.  This is a great deal.

The keys could be yours today if you’ve got the game to tame this…

A brief history of Brownrice Internet from our local newspaper, here: Brownrice Internet: Connecting Taos to the World

As a small hosting, systems administration, and programing company we’re on the front lines of Internet security. In the old days (oh, say pre 2003) our security focus was on upgrading and protecting the server’s operating system. Hackers would probe servers, find vulnerable applications (Apache…

What is Clustered Hosting you say? It’s the top-of-the-line shared hosting service that we provide to clients that need high scalability (i.e. those with high traffic sites that a dedicated server might not be able to handle) but who don’t have the budget or technical experience to set up their own…

My Mom has a vague idea. So does my wife. My kids think we fix computers, eat candy, and watch the fish tank – none of which I can deny. Our clients usually know some of what we do, if we do it for them. With the exception of myself, my staff, and a very small sub-set of our clients who utilize all…

Geek alert!  Only read this post if you are massively geek/developer oriented!

A client emailed in this weekend to find out why their recently imported database data was displaying weird symbos for any place of their sites “higher level” characters. We’ve done a lot of character encoding work for our…

If you’ve been playing in your virtual server you might notice this type of entry in /var/log/messages

Feb 11 12:21:10 load1 sshd(pam_unix)[397]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=mail.kwpskt.edu.hk  user=root
Feb 11 12:21:10 load1 sshd(pam_unix)[398]: authentication…