Update:  New SmartVPSs that are spun up on Brownrice servers are now being packaged with PHP 7.3.0. Some benchmarks claim that PHP 7.3 is 12% faster than PHP 7.2 and over 50% faster than PHP 5.6.  

WordPress sites are compatible with PHP 7.3 (unless you’ve got some funky customizations or out-of-date…

Here are a few new features we’ve recently added to our webcam streaming accounts, all of which are totally free:

All of these changes are accessible by logging into https://dashboard.brownrice.com and then clicking -> Streaming -> camera Manage -> Camera Settings.

We’ve released a slew of new features that our customers can now use with your their webcam hosting accounts!

Here’s what we’ve released:

Time-lapse videos: Every 10 minutes our servers take a snapshot of each of our customers webcam video streams. Each night our servers busily collect all of those…

Do you know what’s even better than Brownrice’s SmartVPS hosting?  Hosting a bunch of SmartVPS instances on your own Private Cloud server in the super-green Brownrice data center, that’s what!  And we’ve got extremely fast and affordable servers in stock right now.

I did a little benchmarking to compare our lightning fast SATA VPS host machines vs our even faster SSD VPS host machines.  And guess what, SSD is faster (shocking!) but with an interesting wrinkle…

This benchmark test compared the disk speeds of our 8 drive RAID-10 SATA disk arrays (running 3ware…

Our Data Center.  Our Solar Parking Structure.  Power provided by the Sun.

Construction on our 20kW solar parking structure starts next week.  Solar Hosting!  Very exciting.