How to install Wordpress
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Navigate to VPS HOSTING
Select your VPS: yourvpsname.com -> Click Manage (green button)
Go to Web
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Add a subdomain to your hosting account
For SmartVPS accounts:
Log in to your Dashboard
Navigate to VPS HOSTING
Select your VPS: yourvpsname.com -> Click Manage
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How to change an FTP/SSH User password
For SmartVPS accounts:
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Select your VPS: yourvpsname.com -> Click
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Our SmartVPSs support FTPS, SSH, and SFTP all on standard ports. We do not support non-secure FTP.
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In Apache2 - which is the web server Brownrice uses - mod_deflate has replaced Apache 1.3's mod_gzip.
mod_deflate is loaded and
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First, please know that Brownrice will migrate one customer site per service free of charge for new customers. We're very
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When hosting your web site, VPS, or email with Brownrice its best to use our Domain Name Servers (DNS.) Listed
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First, please know that Brownrice will migrate one customer site per service free of charge for new customers. We're very
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We're backup fanatics and have saved many a web designer's *ahem* ass by retreiving files that they assumed were long
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Add any of the code below to an .htaccess file in the "docs" folder within your web site. i.e.
docs/.htaccess
Redirect to
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AutoTune notices are just informing you of site "slow-downs," not outages. And these occasional Load Average spikes, or Web Server
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Using SSH allows you to do some advanced (or simple) systems administration on your VPS. You can SSH to your
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Allot more resources to one of your SmartVPSs on your Dedicated PrivateVZ server
Log in to your Dashboard
Navigate to DEDICATED
Select your
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Brownrice’s SmartVPS AutoTune service continually collects over 30 VPS performance metrics and automatically re-tunes your web and database server settings whenever anything gets
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If you've been using a temporary brownrice.com URL to build your site on our servers prior to it going live
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How to clean up a Wordpress hack
The only way to ensure that a hacked Wordpress site is fully rid of
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What is the Document-Root?
This is the directory where your site lives, and where you should put your index.php or index.html
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Just send an email to support@brownrice.com from an email address listed on the account and we'll shut it down for
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Brownrice VPS Performance Graphs/Statistics
Brownrice continuously collects over 30 data points (CPU, Sendmail, Apache, MySQL, RAM, etc.) from your VPS and
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How to upgrade PHP/MySQL versions
For Software Generation 7 SmartVPS accounts:
Log in to your Dashboard
Navigate to VPS HOSTING
Select your VPS: yourvpsname.com -> Click Manage
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