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8 Drive RAID-10 SATA vs 4 Drive RAID-10 SSD
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…...
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Quad SSD on RAID-10 hosting with free SSL
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...
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What’s inside a Brownrice SmartVPS?
What goes into the Brownrice SmartVPS? First off, we use OpenVZ as our virtualization software. OpenVZ container virtualization is by far the best solution for our customers because 1) Its wicked fast...
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Your own private cloud!
Ready to roll! 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...
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A slew of new web camera hosting features!
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...
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How many simultaneous connections can a server handle?
Well, it depends on quite a few things, but let’s start by looking at some server settings and example web applications. Arguably the two most important settings that govern how much simultaneous...
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New (and free!) webcam features
Here are a few new features we’ve recently added to our webcam streaming accounts, all of which are totally free: Sign up for email alerts when we can’t reach your cameras.Want to know when your...
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Managed PHP 7.3 Hosting
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....
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SmartVPS Generation 7 is here!
We’re pleased to announce the release of the 7th generation of our SmartVPS hosting platform. It’s been over a year in the making and we couldn’t be more satisfied with the features that come with...
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A little something extra
We’ve decided to add an extra 10GB’s of disk space to all our SmartVPS SSD hosting customer’s plans. So if you have a 10GB SSD disk space server, when you login to your server you’ll see that it...
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PHP 7.4.5 now supported
Update: All of our Gen7 SmartVPSs now have the option of running PHP 7.4 on any site on your server. Some benchmarks claim that PHP 7.4 is 20% faster than PHP 7.3 and over 60% faster than PHP 5.6....
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PHP 8.0 Support!
Update: All of our Gen7 SmartVPSs now have the option of running PHP 8.0 on any site on your server. One-click, per-site, upgrade instructions are here are here:...
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Webcam setup howto
While we host VPS’s, email, and dedicated servers one of the most enjoyable parts of our business is our webcam hosting services. Our clients cameras literally transport us around the world, every...
View ArticleLet’s Encrypt expired root (X3) certificate fix on a CentOS 6 server
First of all, many thanks to the wonderful Let’s Encrypt community for all the help with this, credit where credit is due:...
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50kW of Solar Production
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...
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GeoSync VPS Hosting!
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...
View ArticleEmail hosting price to increase on June 1st, 2022
At $1 per email account per month we’ve always lost a lot of money on the email hosting side of our business. In fact most hosting businesses of our size long ago abandoned email hosting altogether...
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2023 Brownrice Internet News
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,...
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Brownrice Managed WordPress, Launched!
What does Brownrice WordPress Management with our Hack Clean Guarantee include? Worry free software updates: When you sign up Brownrice WordPress Management we’ll update your WordPress core software,...
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PHP 8.2 Released
Update: All of our Gen7 SmartVPSs now have the option of running PHP 8.2 on any site, at any time. One-click PHP upgrade instructions are here:...
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