SmartVPSs: How do I get my Free SSL certificates? Answer:
Our free SSL certificates are available for all web site's hosted on a Brownrice SmartVPS. If your site is on a SmartVPS you likely already ...
SmartVPSs: How do I create SSH keys on my VPS? Answer: First, create an SSH user and login to your VPS by following these instructions.
Once you've logged into the VPS type this command:
ssh-keygen
Follow the prompts.
Done.
Your SSH ...
SmartVPSs: How do I set up a database on my Smart VPS? Answer: To set up a database on your Smart VPS, you will need to use phpMyAdmin. The procedure is very simple. First, you need to know ...
SmartVPSs: How do I upgrade or downgrade my SmartVPS? Answer:
With an email address that is associated with Brownrice hosting account login to our Dashboard: http://dashboard.brownrice.com
Once Logged in click VPSs -> yourvps.com Manage (green button) -> Upgrade this VPS
Use ...
SmartVPSs: What should I do about these AutoTune Alerts? Answer: AutoTune notices are just informing you of site "slow-downs," not outages. And these occasional Load Average spikes, or Web Server Connections being maxed out, are ...
SmartVPSs: How do I cancel my Brownrice account? Answer: Just send an email to support@brownrice.com from an email address listed on the account and we'll shut it down for you.
Keep in mind that all ...
SmartVPSs: My computer is not syncing with OwnCloud, help! Answer: If your computer is not pushing files or document updates to owncloud, most of the time this is going to be caused by an issue ...
SmartVPSs: How do I redirect an alias domain to an internal folder, another address, or my Answer: Add any of the code below to an .htaccess file in the "docs" folder within your web site. i.e.
docs/.htaccess
Redirect to a subdirectory:
RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?example\.com
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/test/
RewriteRule ...
SmartVPSs: How do I get a free SSL certificate for a domain alias? Answer: The short answer is that we don't support SSL certificates for aliases. However, you can still totally get this done. Here's how:
If you already set ...
SmartVPSs: How do I setup DNS? Answer: Here's how to add your domain to the Brownrice DNS servers:
With an email address that is associated with Brownrice hosting account login to our Dashboard:http://dashboard.brownrice.com
First ...
SmartVPSs: How do I set up a new web site on my SmartVPS? Answer: Here's how to setup hosting for a new web site or subdomain to be hosted on your SmartVPS
You can add as many web site hosting ...
SmartVPSs: How do I upgrade my PHP and MySQL versions? Answer: For Software Generation 7 SmartVPSs you can change the PHP version via our Dashboard.
- Navigate to the VPS Hosting tab. - Click Manage
- Click on the ...
SmartVPSs: How do I add new VPSs to my managed dedicated server? Answer: Log in to https://dashboard.brownrice.com with your billing email (that's probably the one where we sent these instructions)
Once logged in, click: Dedicated -> yourprivateservername.com Manage -> Spawn New ...
SmartVPSs: What is AutoScale? Answer:
AutoScale works with AutoTune and constantly monitors the health of your SmartVPS. If it detects a traffic surge it will upgrade your service level to ensure that ...
SmartVPSs: How do I run Node.js and NPM on my SmartVPS? Answer: Node.js is not intended to be used as server-wide software and should be installed on a per-user basis. This allows you to use whatever version of ...
SmartVPSs: My Wordpress site just had its SSL certificate installed, how do I make my site Answer: Here's how to change your non-secure Wordpress address (http://yourwebsite.com) to a secure address (https://yourwebsite.com)
Via our Dashboard (easiest option)
Login to http://dashboard.brownrice.com
Click -> VPSs -> yourvps.com Manage ...
