Holdfire clients using Mint, disable mod_security

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 [...]

Celebrating 4 years of service

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 [...]

Chirp – Server Migration

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 [...]

Creating a secure password

Today it seems that people are still not creating secure passwords to use. Everyone should be using a secure password whether its just for a social networking site, banking website, home computer or a personal e-mail account.
The reason for utilizing a different secure password for each resource is to ensure that attempts to gain access [...]

Free .com domain with annual purchase

It has been quite some time since we’ve had a promotion here at Holdfire. We decided to go ahead and change things up a bit since the summer has been quite placid. With any annual order, you receive a fee .COM domain name (or transfer) with your purchase.
To receive your free domain, simply chose any [...]