Holdfire Community

Upgrade your WordPress Installs!

Jordan — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 06:58:15 +0000

Matt Mullenweg has posted to the WordPress Blog stating a new WordPress version is released and is asking all users to upgrade. This is an important upgrade as it will resolve critical security issues with WordPress.

[This] is a very important update to apply to your sites as soon as possible because it fixes a core security bug in our HTML sanitation library, called KSES. I would rate this release as “critical.”

I realize an update during the holidays is no fun, but this one is worth putting down the eggnog for. In the spirit of the holidays, consider helping your friends as well.

Download the latest version of WordPress or you can upgrade automatically from your WordPress backend.

Changes to our hardware and service

Jordan — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 02:39:15 +0000

Earlier this week on Tuesday (the 26th), two of our servers in HostNoc (or Burst.net) went down for a large period of time during the afternoon (CST). This was an erroneous error on part of Burst which resulted in our servers being disconnected. I will be quite frank here and just state that the service we have been receiving has been mediocre. We’ve had frequent issues with users not being able to fully route through Burst’s network, an unreliable network that had A LOT of downtime during the Spring so what happened on the 26th was the proverbial icing on the cake. Our decision was made that it was time to move to a reliable provider that could actually provide a reliable network to our clients to ensure maximum uptime.

We transferred all accounts to new servers that are located in Chicago-based datacenter. We’ve been utilizing this Chicago-based datacenter for almost 3.5 years to house the main server we use to host Holdfire on so this was our main reasoning to finally go with the same provider for the rest of our servers. This change will definitely be a positive change for the company and for you–our clients. We understand how important it is to have your site up and running as close to 100% as possible.

Right now the servers have been running smoothly with all accounts transferred over to them. The old servers are still active for the time being just as a backup to ensure that all accounts have a-okay. However, since we’re leaving them active, we decided to go ahead and suspend all of the accounts on the old servers. This means that some of you will see a ‘Suspended Account’ notice when you access your website. Don’t fret! Your ISP is currently resolving to the old server and as a result you will have to wait a few hours for your ISP to propagate to the new servers’ IP adresses.

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to open up a support ticket to let us know so we can resolve it as soon as possible. :)

Our new community blog!

Jordan — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:58:48 +0000

Holdfire has been needing a refresh on our blog for quite some time and as a result we’ve switched over from /blog to our new residence on /community. We started to include some awesome articles on Holdfire but felt that they were getting lost in the mix. So we’ll be trying to write more on various tips and tricks for your hosting account as well as blog about WordPress, HTML5, CSS3 and more.

We are also hoping to have some guest posters here that wouldn’t mind sharing their opinions or knowledge on our blog for the world to read. Looking forward to posting more!