How do I administer my SmartVPS?

Brownrice SmartVPSs are powerful machines that can be fully administered via the Brownrice Dashboard at https://dashboard.brownrice.com

How to add new web site or subdomain to be hosted on your Managed VPS

When a site is added to your VPS via our dashboard its ready for hosting.  The site's logs are rotated, permissions are set up perfectly, its directory structure follows the Brownrice schema, and AWStats are automatically run for it each evening.

Setup a site:

1. Log in to your Dashboard
2. Navigate to VPS HOSTING
   
3. Select your VPS: yourvpsname.com 
   -> Click Manage (green button)
   
4. Go to the Web Sites
   
5. Click Add New Website or Subdomain to this VPS (green button)
   

Done!

Create new SSH/SFTP user account:

1. Log in to your Dashboard
2. Navigate to VPS HOSTING
   
3. Select your VPS: yourvpsname.com 
   -> Click Manage (green button)
   
4. Go to FTP/SSH Users or SSH Users (depending on the Generation of your VPS)
   
   or
   
5. Click Add User (green button)
   
   or
   
6. Select a username and password
   
7. Save

Done!

Get MySQL root password and link to phpMyAdmin:

1. Log in to your Dashboard
2. Navigate to VPS HOSTING
   
3. Select your VPS: yourvpsname.com 
   -> Click Manage (green button)
   
4. Go to Databases
   
5. Click the "eyeball" next to the Password filed to view the MySQL root password
6. Click the phpMyAdmin link and login with user name root and the password you just viewed.
   

Done!

SSH to the Machine

From your Mac Terminal or Terminal program (such as Putty) on a Windows Machine, type:
ssh username@yourwebsiteaddress.com 

Never SSH'd into a server before? Follow these detailed intructions »

Create a Cron Entry

SSH into your server using the SSH account that you set up via your dashboard.  Once logged into the command line type "crontab -e" and create your cron entry.   Or you can use our Dashboard to create the cron job.  Follow these detailed instructions for setting up a cron job on a Brownrice VPS.

Document Root (all sites live in the /home/domains/ directory)
/home/domains/domainname.com/public

phpMyAdmin (root MySQL access can be found in the Dashboard)
http://www.domainname.com/MySQL