Giving away two Macheist nanoBundles

March 3rd, 2010 by Jordan 4 comments »

Macheist is an event that allows you to participate in challenges (“heists”) that offer “free” software and/or discounts to software, as well as selling a bundle of software at the end. This year Holdfire is giving you the chance to win a nanoBundle (with $250 worth of software!) for free.

What do you win?

Two winners will receive one Macheist nanoBundle which includes the following software:

Software currently unlocked in the bundle

MacJournal
Totally revamped and rebuilt for Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard, MacJournal organizes all your important information and helps chronicle your life faster and easier than ever before. Create a personal journal with MacJournal’s simple-to-use interface with two-level security.

RipIt
Movies stored safely in your computer can’t get lost, scratched or broken. Use your Mac’s built in search tool, Spotlight, to find a movie in your collection… instantly. Moving files around on your computer is a lot easier than alphabetizing shelves full of DVDs.

Clips
Clips is your Mac OS X clipboard reinvented. Use Clips to increase productivity during your daily computing experience. When Clips is running you won’t even notice it. Try Clips today and finally see clipboard and snippet management, the Mac way.

CoverScout
Color the gray gaps in your iTunes library: CoverScout 3 helps you find missing cover art in your iTunes library with style. It’s never been easier to complete your music collection: simply search, apply, edit and print. CoverScout has been optimized for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

Flow
On the Mac, you’ve become accustomed to software that’s not just powerful, but elegant too. Armed with the belief that file-transfer should be no exception, we made Flow. Flow brings the best of the Mac to your server’s files and folders. Flow makes working remotely every bit as intuitive and natural as working locally.

Software currently locked in the bundle

Tales of Monkey Island
Telltale’s latest episodic series is Tales of Monkey Island, a five-episode saga featuring mighty pirate Guybrush Threepwood and his motley crew. Tales of Monkey Island pulls the legendary franchise thundering and plundering into the modern era with an epic storyline conceived by some of the same team that dreamed up the original games.

Rapidweaver
With powerful tools under the hood, yet a beautifully-familiar user interface built especially for Mac OS X Leopard, RapidWeaver is ideal for anyone looking to create a beautiful website. RapidWeaver has all the tools you need to quickly create pages you’ll be proud of.

How do you win?

Contest Rules

  1. Winners will be emailed as well as announced in a blog entry on Holdfire’s blog which will also include a tweet on our Twitter account.
  2. Winners may be from any of the 7 continents and will be responsible for any related taxes or restrictions according to their state laws.
  3. Multiple entries will only be counted as one entry.
  4. Make sure your tweet is public; If you have a private profile, we can’t see it!
  5. No purchase is necessary to win nor are you required to be a Holdfire client.
  6. Participants must be 14 years of age or older to enter.
  7. Contest entries are valid only through 3/3/10 10PM CST until 3/6/10 12PM CST.
  8. Winners will be picked at random on 3/6/10 1PM CST and announced around 3PM CST the same day.

Good luck to you!

Dharma DNS Changes

February 22nd, 2010 by Jordan No comments »

In an effort to keep up with our client’s growing needs, we have migrated from our old IP addresses to new IP addresses. 173.212.202.154 and 173.212.202.155 are now the new IP addresses for nameservers on Dharma.

We have also suspended the use of all previous nameservers except for ns1.holdfire.net, ns2.holdfire.net, ns3.holdfire.net and ns4.holdfire.net. Although some users on Orchid may still utilize orchid1/orchid2 for the time being as those have not yet been flushed out.

We are also in the process of making our hosting more transparent so that if you want to resell to your own clients with the Holdfire label attached to it, you will be able to do so. We’ll be straying from using ‘Holdfire’ itself on our reseller servers to allow you to have private label hosting for you and your own clients. More details will be made shortly.

Thanks!

Holdfire clients using Mint, disable mod_security

January 17th, 2010 by Jordan 1 comment »

We have currently changed around some of our mod_security settings on all of our servers and as a result have noticed a growing issue with Mint.

We receive the error “ModSecurity: Access denied with code 406 (phase 2). Invalid UTF-8 encoding: invalid byte value in character at ARGS:resource_title” from all instances of Mint on all of our servers. We looked into it and according to several posts on Mint’s troubleshooting forum, Shaun has recommended the user include an .htaccess file in the mint directory with the following which will disable mod_security for that directory only.

<IfModule mod_security.c>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
SecFilterCheckURLEncoding Off
SecRuleRemoveById 950801
</IfModule>

References:

Celebrating 4 years of service

November 23rd, 2009 by Jordan No comments »

This past October Holdfire celebrated it’s 4th birthday. While we were a little late on celebrating another year of business, we did manage to launch our new website. Along with our new website, we have decided to retire one of our shared plans and on of our reseller plans.

This decision was based on the lack of interest in the two plans removed as well as simplifying our selection for potential clients. While more options are great to have sometimes it can be too confusing–we’re going to keep it simple! And since we removed two plans we decided to “upgrade” the remaining packages with more disk space or bandwidth (or both.)

We also expanded in other areas and now offer the ability to purchase virtual private servers and dedicated servers. Each have three plans to chose from and give you the ability to customize them based on your needs. On either of the servers you can select your operating system, control panel and add the option for fully managed support. However, with our dedicated servers while there is a main setup, you can opt to add extra harddrives in any RAID configuration, order extra IP blocks, upgrade/downgrade your main harddrive, and of course opt for other add-ons available.

You may see some bugs here and there with our website and other products (forum, blog, support area) but we’re trying to squash them as we see them. If there’s something we’ve missed, send an email or support ticket letting us know–it’s greatly appreciated!

Chirp – Server Migration

September 5th, 2009 by Jordan No comments »

Chirp has been our main (shared) server for over two years now, and has served us quite well. However, in the last few months I have noticed that the server specs are no longer providing the quality of service that I expect for Holdfire. Server loads average 1.5 or higher on a daily basis, and when I’ve accessed cPanel throughout the day, I notice in increase in wait time for it to load.

Because of this we have deployed a new server to replace Chirp. As we have many clients on Chirp, we will only be migrating accounts on certain days. To organize this process as best we can, we will only migrate via alphabetical order per day. A-G will begin migration on Sunday September 6th, H-N on Monday September 7th, O-U on Tuesday September 8th, and V-Z on Wednesday September 9th.

When your account has been migrated over in full, you will receive a new account details email which will include new nameservers, and the new server IP address. The chirp nameservers will remain in effect (although will be pointing to the new server on 9/10) until September 20th to allow all users time to change them. After this they will be deactivated and if you have an account still using these nameservers, the domain will be unable to connect properly.

If you have any questions about our migration, please submit a support ticket.